"acreful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From acre + -ful.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "acrefuls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "acresful",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1944, Arnold Gingrich, Coronet - Volume 16, page 40:",
          "text": "The California sun was doing what the Chamber of Commerce says it always does; bees were buzzing; larks were bugling; orange marigolds were blooming by the acreful.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Agronomy Abstracts, page 15:",
          "text": "As pressures grow for increased Industrial, recreational and urban use of water, agriculture will have to justify every acreful of water it uses.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Mother Mary Francis, Come Alive, page 16:",
          "text": "It does not cry for proof, what even one burning spark can accomplish in acrefuls of stubble.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Eric Chevillard, Palafox, page 98:",
          "text": "...three insectivorous fledgelings, who no sooner have they swallowed a mosquito whole are they clamoring for the whole swarm, who no sooner have they swallowed a worm than are they clamoring for an acreful, reminding us not a little already in certain respects of our Palafox, their presumptive father.",
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        "As much as an acre produces or uses."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1980, Louis T. Renz, The history of the Northern Pacific Railroad, page 206:",
          "text": "Also the grant brought troubles by the acreful.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Janis Susan May, The avenging maid, page 23:",
          "text": "Flowers were all very well and good in their place, growing in the wild, or even a few in a vase on a lady's boudoir table, but when they took over the hall in acresful, it was too much.",
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        "An unspecified but very large amount."
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  "word": "acreful"
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  "etymology_text": "From acre + -ful.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "acrefuls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "acresful",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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          "ref": "1944, Arnold Gingrich, Coronet - Volume 16, page 40:",
          "text": "The California sun was doing what the Chamber of Commerce says it always does; bees were buzzing; larks were bugling; orange marigolds were blooming by the acreful.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Agronomy Abstracts, page 15:",
          "text": "As pressures grow for increased Industrial, recreational and urban use of water, agriculture will have to justify every acreful of water it uses.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Mother Mary Francis, Come Alive, page 16:",
          "text": "It does not cry for proof, what even one burning spark can accomplish in acrefuls of stubble.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Eric Chevillard, Palafox, page 98:",
          "text": "...three insectivorous fledgelings, who no sooner have they swallowed a mosquito whole are they clamoring for the whole swarm, who no sooner have they swallowed a worm than are they clamoring for an acreful, reminding us not a little already in certain respects of our Palafox, their presumptive father.",
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        "As much as an acre produces or uses."
      ],
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          "ref": "1980, Louis T. Renz, The history of the Northern Pacific Railroad, page 206:",
          "text": "Also the grant brought troubles by the acreful.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Janis Susan May, The avenging maid, page 23:",
          "text": "Flowers were all very well and good in their place, growing in the wild, or even a few in a vase on a lady's boudoir table, but when they took over the hall in acresful, it was too much.",
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        }
      ],
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        "An unspecified but very large amount."
      ]
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  "word": "acreful"
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