Wainful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wainful is a noun meaning A quantity that fills a wain; wagonful.
Meaning
A quantity that fills a wain; wagonful.
Example Sentences
It is a pleasant picture to dwell on ; the farm, a small state. in itself, with the mowers and gleaners singing about the last wainful of corn ;
Farmer John and his comfortable wainful, has the best of my Lord Grateswel, in his uncomfortably aristocratic coach,—for “First come first served,” is the Grasmere Sports' motto.
They were guided "by a man in a long smock with girdle and scarf of green," and drew "a wainful of children dressed as woodland gods, tossing daisies and field flowers as they went along."
It's not just the English wine, he's doing hay-wain rides around les vignes where exactly the wainful of hay is supposed to have come from on a farm covered in grapevines I can't tell you– pick-and-press days, bottle-your-own sessions, with labels for the kiddies to colour in, Christmas wine clubs, cheese and wine-tasting nights with a band and dancing.
Word Forms
- wainfuls
- wainsful
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wellful, wagonload, wameful, vaultful, gowpenful, cartful.
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