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roadful

roadful noun: enough to fill a road.

Noun

roadful (plural roadfuls or roadsful)

  1. Enough to fill a road.
    • Now, in those suburbs where cheap trains and cheap trams are having most influence, you may see farms being covered with houses, not by pairs or by half-dozens, but by roadsful and by hundreds.1900, Journal of the Sanitary Institute, page 322
    • The skidder moves about four times a day, cleaning up eight roadsful of logs.1915, Logging: A Monthly Magazine of Men, Machinery and Methods, page 271

Examples of roadful in a sentence

  • The English, in particular, appear to enjoy consuming Minis by roadfuls and Mediterranean sun by the thermful.1971, George Fisk, editor, New Essays in Marketing Theory, Boston, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., page 382:
  • One could visualize the bursting of mailbags and the roadfuls of snarled trucks hard by the sagging loading docks.1975, Robert John Myers, The Coming Collapse of the Post Office, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 43:
  • Turning at the café, I was held up by a roadful of cows, changing pasture at a pace that would not excite anyone’s milk.1997, Nicholas Kilmer, A Place in Normandy, Henry Holt and Company:
  • I saw death winkle life from shells, dive on cradle, burrow and bed, strafe roadfuls of refugees on the run from their cold bread-ovens, their blood-spattered streets.2007, Deirdre Brennan, Ag Eitilt Fara Condair, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 77:

Forms of roadful

pluralroadfuls
pluralroadsful

Origin of roadful

From road + -ful.

Questions about roadful

What does roadful mean?
Roadful means enough to fill a road.
How do you use roadful in a sentence?
The English, in particular, appear to enjoy consuming Minis by roadfuls and Mediterranean sun by the thermful.
What part of speech is roadful?
Roadful is a noun.
What is the plural of roadful?
The plural of roadful is roadfuls.

Words near roadful in the dictionary

  1. roaders
  2. roadfan
  3. roadfans
  4. roadfellow
  5. roadfellows
  6. roadful
  7. roadfuls
  8. roadgeek
  9. roadgeeking
  10. roadgeeks
  11. roadgoing

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