sledgeful

plural sledgefuls

1. Enough to fill a sledge.

   Near-synonyms: sledload, sledful, sleighload, sleighful

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   And so we all sat down again, and stared at him and at each other in helpless, hopeless bewilderment, until suddenly a German of the company, an odd fellow full of crotchets, who had lumbered the expedition with a whole sledgeful of private baggage, sprang up, lighted a torch, and darted out of the cavern as though possessed with a new idea.

   1870 January, “Thawed Out”, in Putnam’s Magazine. Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National Interests., volume V, number XXV, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam & Sons, page 64

   So they gathered and collected / First a large supply of birch-trees, / Pine-trees with their hundred needles, / Trees from which the pitch was oozing, / And of bark a thousand sledgefuls, / Ash-trees, long a hundred fathoms.

   [1907], “Runo XXXI.—Untamo and Kullervo”, in W[illiam] F[orsell] Kirby, transl., Kalevala: The Land of Heroes (Everyman’s Library; edited by Ernest Rhys), volume two, London: J. M. Dent & Co.; New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., page 72, lines 151–156

   Horses with bells jangling on their bridles, which reminded her of Arthur, were pulling sledgefuls of tourists along the High Street.

   1993, Jilly Cooper, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, BCA, page 440

   Synonyms: sledgeload, sledload, sledful, sleighload, sleighful