Well-filled
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Well-filled is an adjective meaning Sufficiently full, without being full to overflowing.
Meaning
Sufficiently full, without being full to overflowing.
Example Sentences
Again, the 9.00 Kings Cross-Newcastle is very variable in its loading, but the 17.00 back, on which most of the stock returns, is usually well-filled.
The train was well filled, with quite an amount of intermediate business; but station staff and passengers alike seemed ready enough to "look lively", and the result was a general "slickness" in working that augers^([sic]) well for the future.
Speaking of locomotive surefootedness, I was immensely impressed, on a recent journey with the down "Ulsterman" from Euston, when "Royal Scot" 4-6-0 No. 46168, The Girl Guide, cleanly lifted a well-filled 15-coach train of 471 tons tare and 500 tons gross out of the terminus without the service of any banking engine.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include underfull, fullish, overfull, filled, full, brimful.
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