schoolful

Noun

schoolful (plural schoolfuls or schoolsful)

1. Enough to fill a school.
   • The student of industrial, political, and social matters, coming to the investigation of the developments of the 19th century, will find in these subjects ample material to engage the services of schoolsful of colleagues.1895, R[ichar]d Marsden, “Introduction”, in G[erhart] von Schulze-Gaevernitz, translated by Oscar S[tandring] Hall, The Cotton Trade in England and on the Continent. A Study in the Field of the...
   • Also my friend should not say that I “would have no ladders from the primary school to the University.” On the contrary, I argued that there always have been such ladders, and quite properly so; but that we should not use them as the dustmen do, for tipping whole schoolfuls of rubbish into the...1923, George Saintsbury, “An Omnibus Box”, in A Second Scrap Book, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, […], page 364