valleyful

plural valleyfuls · plural valleysful

1. As much as fills a valley.

   Soon his profits were ten times the value of his investment, and he counted his herds by the valleyful.

   2008, Richard L. Smith, Premodern Trade in World History

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   Elham, Stelling, Waltham, Bishopsbourne with its literary as well as its architectural treasures, Patrixbourne whose church is one of the most perfect pure Norman pieces in England, Denton, and Wootton, the seat of the Bridges family, that gave us a famous littérateur at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and a great Poet Laureate at the end of it: these are only a sample of the valleyfuls of names that represent a social history to which no writer could do justice in one lifetime.

   1948, Richard Church, Kent, page 197

   Holding aloft valleysful of brown wooden huts, like loaded trays in the palms of black-tailed waiters, upturned for the scrutiny of a jewelled moon-goddess, the mountains and valleys rose and swam out of sight.

   1961, Samuel Roth, My Friend Yeshea, page 1

   Ann's son was so good at mimicking marmots that he was soon "talking" to a whole valleyful of the critters.

   1997, John Graham, Outdoor Leadership: Technique, Common Sense & Self-confidence