woodsful

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noun

As much as can be found in a woods; forestful.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounwoodsful (plural woodsfuls)

plural woodsfuls

  1. As much as can be found in a woods; forestful.

    Then it wasn't one lonesome critter; it was a woodsful, tearing each others' eyeballs out.

    2012, James Still, Ted Olson, The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still
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    And when he is talking about a whole woodsful of these abstract trees he calls it "some branchy bunchy bushybowered wood," because he wants to feel as though it were here.

    1939, Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics, page 144

    1847-84 – Described by the historian William Bone as “a period in which farms were being fully established, a new county government was growing, the wilderness was still very pervasive with giant trees and woodsfuls of predators and bears."

    1995, Mary Hufford, “Landscape and History at the Headwaters of the Big Coal River Valley”, in Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia, published 2001, page 9

    The melody from a woodsful of leafless tree-limbs blowing in the wind is not a single sound, but a combination of music from each species, and from each individual tree within a species.

    2012, Jean M. Hughes, Walking Around The Sun, page 359

Origin

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