boardful

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noun

An amount that fills a board.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounboardful (plural boardfuls or boardsful)

plural boardfuls · plural boardsful

  1. An amount that fills a board.

    After all, boardfuls of clues are created long in advance and chosen at random with no knowledge of players.

    2006, Bob Harris, Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!, page 46
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    But as systems designers master the use of computer- aided engineering and move toward silicon compilation, they will increasingly reduce those boardsful of logic to single VLSI chips.

    1990, George Gilder, Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution In Economics And Technology

    A pattern is usually quickly established in which the professor repeatedly fills the blackboard with equations, copying from handwritten notes, while the students try to copy each boardful into their own notes before it is erased to make room for the next.

    2001, Jeff Schmidt, Disciplined Minds

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