flatful

plural flatfuls · plural flatsful

1. UKEnough to fill a flat (apartment).

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   [S]he pointedly remarked that they had just moved to the city a month previous, that they were dissatisfied, and would return to Hoosierdom in June. I was completely taken in, and departed without making the assessment. However, when whole flatsful began to make similar explanations under similar circumstances, I awoke to the fact that I had been bluffed.

   1905 May 21, “Woes of Tax Assessor Many and Laughable. By a Deputy.”, in Worker’s Magazine: For the Man Who Works with Hand or Brain (The Sunday Plain Dealer), Cleveland, Oh., →OCLC, page [4], column 4

2. Enough to fill a flat (container).

   [P]lant the tubers in flatfuls of one of the above mixtures right after the pink sprouts have appeared.

   1949, Norvell Gillespie, “How to Grow Tuberous Begonias”, in Pacific Coast Gardening Guide, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 149

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   When the first lot of cuttings has been taken from the flat clean out the flat, using new sand for the next lot; never use sand twice. It must not be supposed that all will go as swimmingly as it reads, as there is a disease that young cuttings, known as “cutting-bench fungus,” which sweeps whole flatfuls away in a single day.

   1906 November, Samuel Armstrong Hamilton, “Potted Plants for Decoration in the Home”, in Herbert S[tuart] Stone, editor, The House Beautiful, Chicago, Ill.: The House Beautiful Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44, column 2

   It is both irresponsible and greedy to dig up flatfuls of any wild plant. Take a little here and there, on level ground only, and always fill in the hole you’ve made with a generous pile of ground litter and leaves to prevent erosion and help the area restore itself.

   1976 May, Richard M[alcolm] Ketchum, editor, Blair & Ketchum’s Country Journal, volume III, number 5, Brattleboro, Vt.: Country Journal Publishing Co., Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 54, column 2