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🧵 A yard of material 🌿 A yard filled
yardful

yardful

4.1
An amount that fills a yard-sized outdoor area
  • noun
  • /ˈjɑrdfəl/
  • US
translation icon : yarda
  • Behind them is a preschool with a yardful of toys now abandoned.

Examples

  • The children played in a yardful of leaves, enjoying the crisp autumn air.

  • After planting flowers, I filled the garden with a yardful of rich soil.

  • The dog happily rolled around in a yardful of fresh grass.

Surface Forms

yardful singular
yardfuls plural

Morphology

yardful = yard (transparent) = yard + ful

Built from 'yard' (here meaning an outdoor area) + '-ful' to indicate an amount sufficient to fill or be contained in the yard, a predictable composition.

Etymology

Yardful comes from yard and -ful, where yard can mean the outdoor space next to a house (as in backyard) and -ful means 'as much as'. So a yardful of leaves is 'as much as fills the yard', which explains this meaning.