mineful
mineful noun: an amount sufficient to fill a mine.
Noun
mineful (plural minefuls)
- An amount sufficient to fill a mine.
- The Americans abandoned what had become a more than useless concession, and to-day a mineful of water, colored with copper sulphates and lapping undetermined streaks of ore, remains the property of the Virgin of Cobre.1920, Harry A. Frank, Roaming through the West Indies, Blue Ribbon Books, unnumbered page
- A large amount, particularly of something obtained through mining.
- Oh this earth is a mineful of treasure,
A goblet, that's full to the brim,1892, Horace Smith, “My Boating Song”, in Interludes: Being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses, Macmillan and Co, page 117 - I had taken all this with a mineful of salt and had not been calling Violet more often.1990, Judith Rossner, His Little Women, Pocket Books, published 1991, →ISBN, page 185
- Oh this earth is a mineful of treasure,
Forms of mineful
| plural | minefuls |
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Origin of mineful
From mine + -ful.
Questions about mineful
- What does mineful mean?
- Mineful means an amount sufficient to fill a mine.
- What part of speech is mineful?
- Mineful is a noun.
- What is the plural of mineful?
- The plural of mineful is minefuls.
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