Meanings
plural lawnfuls · plural lawnsful
- Enough to fill a lawn.
We'll plant bulbs and things. A whole lawnful of daffodils.
2012, Wendy Perriam, Born of Woman4 more examples
He has wittily redone a tardy epithalamium and some nursery rhymes ("Three blind eunuchs"), and deftly catches the cozy lawnfuls of plastic dwarfs and flamingos, outside the kenneled people.
1976, Choice - Volume 13, Issues 8-12, page 1300The alarm clock ticked below her head, on the ground, serenading her with its tick, tick, tick, accompanied by some nearby frogs and a lawnful of crickets.
1986, Susan Marie, Never Bring Her Roses, page 72There was the detritus of untold communes and utopias— from the celibate Shakers, who'd died out through lack of breeding, to the wholly licentious latter-day acidheads who'd left behind nothing but their fleas and half-finished macramé plant hangers and lawnsful of broken major appliances.
2014, Cornelia Read, The Crazy School, page 12Very early on the morning President Kennedy was to take off for Vienna to meet with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev June 3 and 4, 1961, a lawnful of Kennedy siblings massed on the compound for a prebreakfast game.
2016, Triumph and Tragedy: The Story of the Kennedys' Early Years
Origin
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