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ovenful

ovenful noun: as much as an oven will hold.

Noun

ovenful (plural ovenfuls or ovensful)

  1. As much as an oven will hold.
    • Cesar Delmarre baked ten ovenfuls a day, maintaining an athletic cadence, but kept a surprisingly small stock, because he had nowhere to put it, his landlady refusing to rent him a room on the second floor next to where she slept for fear that his activities would disturb her peace.1996, Steven Laurence Kaplan, The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775, page 62
    • They used up their reserves of flour at a prodigious rate to bake ovenful after ovenful of bread loaves, and then they loaded the small hand-cart and trundled it down the lane to the main road.1998, Wilbur Smith, The Burning Shore, page 4

Forms of ovenful

pluralovenfuls
pluralovensful

Origin of ovenful

From oven + -ful.

Questions about ovenful

What does ovenful mean?
Ovenful means as much as an oven will hold.
What part of speech is ovenful?
Ovenful is a noun.
What is the plural of ovenful?
The plural of ovenful is ovenfuls.

Words near ovenful in the dictionary

  1. Ovenden
  2. Ovendens
  3. ovened
  4. ovenette
  5. ovenettes
  6. ovenful
  7. ovenfuls
  8. ovening
  9. ovenless
  10. ovenlike
  11. ovenproof

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