sledful

plural sledfuls · plural sledsful

1. Enough to fill a sled.

   a sledful of supplies

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   Near-synonyms: sledgeful, sledgeload, sleighful, sleighload

   a sledful of firewood

   At another time a sledful of several young ladies had just passed one of the most dangerous parts of the road when a shower of rocks fell behind and between them and the next komatik which was but a short distance behind, yet nobody was injured.

   1884, Winfrid Alden Stearns, “Blanc Sablon again—Northern limits of the bittern—Return along the coast of Natashquan—[…]”, in Labrador, a Sketch of Its People, Its Industries and Its Natural History, Boston, Mass.: Lee and Shepard; New York, N.Y.: Charles T. Dillingham, page 247

   Having dispatched (in an innocent way) all the Pets of a general character last week, I intended next to attack the “stack of black cats,” and otherwise colored members of the feline race, about whom their fond owners have from time to time written us. But to my dismay when I went up into the composing-room on the proper day to see if the proof was all right I found it was not all right, for D. F.’s blue pencil had made a long mark to show how much must come out if those two sledfuls of pets went in.

   1897 April 8, Mr. Martin, “The Conversation Corner”, in The Congregationalist, volume LXXXII, number 14, page 491

   He didn’t say a word about those two sledsful we were hauling by hand.

   1941, Frances Ella Fitz, as told to Jerome Odlum, chapter 8, in Lady Sourdough, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 150

   Synonyms: sledload, sledgeful, sledgeload, sleighful, sleighload