pathful
pathful noun: enough to fill a path.
Noun
pathful (plural not attested)
- Enough to fill a path.
- The rough on this historic Scottish links is a tangled thicket of head-high shrubs called gorse, here growing so densely that it seems to swallow up a whole pathful of spectators walking between holes.1960 July 18, “In the Rough”, in Sports Illustrated, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., page 27
- A pathful of strange blossoms vying for glamour;[…].1983, Anthony C. Yu, translator and editor, The Journey to the West, volume 4, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 62
Examples of pathful in a sentence
- […]the “fight” is about on a par with a “battle” between an individual in hobnailed boots and a pathful of garden quails.1993, The Bulletin, page 10:
- A whole pathful of fallen flowers go off down to the waters, this is the morning young Ruan Zhao reaches Mount Tian-tai.1996, Stephen Owen, editor and translator, “The Yuan and Ming Dynasties”, in An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911, New...
- Rainbows in heaven / Wise serpent hissing / Pathful of daisies / December winds.2000, Jeanette Strack-Zanghi, “January 27, 2000”, in Soul Voices, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 27:
Origin of pathful
From path + -ful.
Questions about pathful
- What does pathful mean?
- Pathful means enough to fill a path.
- How do you use pathful in a sentence?
- […]the “fight” is about on a par with a “battle” between an individual in hobnailed boots and a pathful of garden quails.
- What part of speech is pathful?
- Pathful is a noun.
Words near pathful in the dictionary
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