Sheetful

Quick meaning: Sheetful is a noun meaning The amount that fits on a sheet (any meaning).

Meaning

The amount that fits on a sheet (any meaning).

Example Sentences

One sheet may be filled while baking another sheetful of cakes.

Of cheese and butter we had a sufficient supply; and the yellow corn-meal which we had brought for the teams furnished sheetful after sheetful of johnny-cake, which Aunt Olive split, toasted, and buttered well, as a groundwork for the white monkey.

But as the glimpse of A was not to be had, it was resolved to send for selection by himself glimpses of other letters of the alphabet, actual heads as well as fanciful ones; and the sheetful I sent out, which he returned when the choice was made, I here reproduce in fac-simile.

Then, after an anonymous draughtsman, "M.S.R.," had appeared with a single cut ("Candles"), Mr. F. Wilfrid Lawson, the elder brother and teacher of Cecil Lawson, contributed a sheetful of initials and vignettes which dribbled forth in the paper up to 1876; and Mr. T. Walters, a half-a-dozen, up to 1875. Mr. E. J. Ellis, now better known in other fields than comic draughtsmanship, began on December 12th, 1867.

Word Forms

• sheetfuls
• sheetsful

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sheetage, sheeter, sheet, paperful, plateful, sheete.

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