"carpetful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From carpet + -ful.",
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          "ref": "1932 April 4, Monmouth County Librarian, “County Libraries Invite Readers: That Magic Carpet”, in Long Branch Daily Record, volume 31, number 80, Long Branch, N.J., page 5, column 1",
          "text": "First stop, France, where Jean Paul has his trick white mice; Lady Green Satin and her maid, Rosette, perform for the carpetful of absorbed youngsters; […]",
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          "ref": "1971 July 23, “It’s Story Time At The Library Thursdays at 2:30”, in The Mendocino Beacon, volume XCIII, number 47, Mendocino, Calif., page 1, column 4",
          "text": "Gather ’round, Children, for the weekly story hour Thursday at 2:30. Last week there were two carpetsful of listeners.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1987 September 6, Robert Joe Stout, “Some handy hints for taking care of little ones”, in News/Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: News and Sun-Sentinel Company, →ISSN, page 9E, column 1",
          "text": "Babies, like hamsters, develop supernatural physical abilities the minute an adult leaves the room. They have been known to disappear under furniture, pull over tables, lamps and bookcases and eat entire carpetsful of crumbs, dust, thimbles, books and valuable items that have been lost for generations.",
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        {
          "ref": "1996, Ed Greenwood, Jeff Grubb, “The Common Room, Year of the Gauntlet (1369 DR)”, in Cormyr: A Novel (The Cormyr Saga), Renton, Wash.: Wizards of the Coast, published 2011",
          "text": "All we know is that Duke Bhereu has died, the king and Baron Thomdor linger near death despite wagonloads of priests and winged carpetfuls of war wizards laboring night and day, […]",
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        {
          "ref": "2022, D. A. Wood, Canaäd, Eugene, Ore.: Resource Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, page 558",
          "text": "The first air-raiders loosed large carpetfuls of hurtling rocks that strafed men on the ground, dislocating their shoulders, shattering 150 large wooden shields, and pulverizing brows.",
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        "The amount that fills a carpet."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "red-carpetful"
        }
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  "etymology_text": "From carpet + -ful.",
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          "ref": "1932 April 4, Monmouth County Librarian, “County Libraries Invite Readers: That Magic Carpet”, in Long Branch Daily Record, volume 31, number 80, Long Branch, N.J., page 5, column 1",
          "text": "First stop, France, where Jean Paul has his trick white mice; Lady Green Satin and her maid, Rosette, perform for the carpetful of absorbed youngsters; […]",
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          "text": "Babies, like hamsters, develop supernatural physical abilities the minute an adult leaves the room. They have been known to disappear under furniture, pull over tables, lamps and bookcases and eat entire carpetsful of crumbs, dust, thimbles, books and valuable items that have been lost for generations.",
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          "text": "All we know is that Duke Bhereu has died, the king and Baron Thomdor linger near death despite wagonloads of priests and winged carpetfuls of war wizards laboring night and day, […]",
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