Armful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɑɹmˌfəl/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Armful is a noun meaning The amount an arm or arms can hold.
Meaning
The amount an arm or arms can hold.
Example Sentences
Upon this, by Conſent, the Doctors put a Good Armful of Warm Womans Fleſh into the Bed to him, [...]
We have here a handful—an armful would be nearer the truth—on poems on scriptural and sacred subjects.
In this state of the weather, and before sunrise, in the grey of the morning, we had to wade off, nearly up to our hips in water, to load the skiff with the wood by armsfull.
[T]hough Pyrocles and Muſidorus at other times would diſpence with the length of the ſports, yet now, in reſpect of the armfuls of joys they were to expect in bed, they thought them tedious; [...]
Word Forms
- armfuls
- armsful
- armsfuls
- armfull
Related Words
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