acreful

plural acrefuls · plural acresful

1. As much as an acre produces or uses.

   It does not cry for proof, what even one burning spark can accomplish in acrefuls of stubble.

   1988, Mother Mary Francis, Come Alive, page 16

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   The California sun was doing what the Chamber of Commerce says it always does; bees were buzzing; larks were bugling; orange marigolds were blooming by the acreful.

   1944, Arnold Gingrich, Coronet - Volume 16, page 40

   As pressures grow for increased Industrial, recreational and urban use of water, agriculture will have to justify every acreful of water it uses.

   1963, Agronomy Abstracts, page 15

   ...three insectivorous fledgelings, who no sooner have they swallowed a mosquito whole are they clamoring for the whole swarm, who no sooner have they swallowed a worm than are they clamoring for an acreful, reminding us not a little already in certain respects of our Palafox, their presumptive father.

   2010, Eric Chevillard, Palafox, page 98

2. An unspecified but very large amount.

   Also the grant brought troubles by the acreful.

   1980, Louis T. Renz, The history of the Northern Pacific Railroad, page 206

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   Flowers were all very well and good in their place, growing in the wild, or even a few in a vase on a lady's boudoir table, but when they took over the hall in acresful, it was too much.

   1990, Janis Susan May, The avenging maid, page 23