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wheelful

wheelful adjective: full of, or bearing, wheels; wheeled.

Adjective

wheelful (comparative more wheelful, superlative most wheelful)

  1. Full of, or bearing, wheels; wheeled.
    • The Wheelman for June has just reached us, and we can only say that it seems to be rolling all around the country, and that it is the most wheelful, as well as the wheeliest periodical we ever saw.1883, Puck, volume 13, page 199

Noun

wheelful (plural wheelfuls)

  1. The amount a wheel can hold.
    • The external boundary is surface enough for communication between the organelles of a single cell with their minuscule volumes. But the surface of a wheel as large as a human foot could not provision the wheelful of organic matter within.1983, Stephen Jay Gould, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
    • Trucks and cars flew past, slinging wheelfuls of heavy slush at me in brown sideways thumps, and I lived for the bus stops where I could shelter and warm my hands on the tea flask.2016, Sarah Outen, Dare to Do: Taking on the planet by bike and boat

Forms of wheelful

Adjective
comparativemore wheelful
superlativemost wheelful
Noun
pluralwheelfuls

Origin of wheelful

From wheel + -ful.

From wheel + -ful. Compare handful.

Questions about wheelful

What does wheelful mean?
Wheelful means full of, or bearing, wheels; wheeled.
What part of speech is wheelful?
Wheelful can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near wheelful in the dictionary

  1. wheelery
  2. wheelest
  3. wheeleth
  4. wheelflat
  5. wheelflats
  6. wheelful
  7. wheelfuls
  8. wheelgun
  9. wheelguns
  10. wheelhorse
  11. wheelhorses

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