wagonful
- noun
- /ˈwæɡənfəl/
- Is it true that you dynamited a wagonful of prospectors in the Western territories last spring?
Examples
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She bought a wagonful of fresh produce from the market for the festival.
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The man would park his red wagonful of newspapers inside the courtyard door and tie the languid dog to the knob where he could be monitored from the Periodicals.
Fiction book (1995) -
The farmers filled a wagonful of hay to feed the livestock during the winter.
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They transported a wagonful of firewood to ensure they had enough for the chilly evenings.
Synonyms
A very large amount about as much as fills a truck
A very large amount of something
A large number of people or things that fill a car
An amount that fills a cart, often meaning a very large quantity
An amount of goods that fills a van
A very large amount, like enough to fill a wagon
An amount that fills a truck
A full load that fills a cart
A load of things that fills a car
A full load of people or things in a boat
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wagonful comes from the simple parts wagon and -ful, where wagon means a cart or vehicle and -ful means 'full of', as in handful. So a wagonful is an amount large enough to fill a wagon.