Armful
['ɑːmfʊl]
Definition
(n.) As much as the arm can hold.
Checker: Wade
Examples
- Gathering an armful of his books out of my desk, I filled my apron and poured them in a heap upon his estrade, at his feet. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- As soon as he arrived he laid her down carefully by the entrance, and then ran and cut with his pocketknife an armful of the dryest fern. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- As before, she was appraised of his presence by a soft sound behind her, and turned to see him coming across the turf with a great armful of branches. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They heard her go into the dining-room, and drop her armful of books on the table. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typed by Beryl