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legfuls

legfuls is the plural of legful.

Meaning of legful

Noun

legful (plural legfuls)

  1. As much as goes on or in a leg.
    • It's the things you get besides the smelts— the spring moon over the spruces, the rush of the snow-water through the sets, the sudden excruciating breathlessness when you go in over your boots and have a legful of that same water.1949, John Gould, And One to Grow on: Recollections of a Maine Boyhood, page 208
  2. As much as can be moved by a leg.
    • In the corner of the door jamb, the spider flings legfuls of web over the moth, spinning it around like a chunk of wood on a lathe.2008, Forrest Gander, As a Friend, page 73

Questions about legfuls

What is legfuls the plural of?
Legfuls is the plural of legful.

Words near legfuls in the dictionary

  1. Legerwood
  2. leges
  3. Legette
  4. Legettes
  5. legful
  6. legfuls
  7. Legg
  8. legg'd
  9. Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease
  10. Legg-Calvé-Perthes syndrome
  11. Leggatt

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