"frameful" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: framefuls [plural], framesful [plural]
Etymology: frame + -ful Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|frame|ful|pos=noun}} frame + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun|s|framesful}} frameful (plural framefuls or framesful)
  1. A quantity that fills a frame (any sense).
    Sense id: en-frameful-en-noun-~XZeX6x7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns suffixed with -ful

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1896, The Leisure Hour, page 391",
          "text": "In the old days each frameful was of one colour; but now, by what is called “planting,” an extra colour or two may be worked in the frames, providing it is done judiciously, so as not to produce a perceptible stripe.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1912, Farmers' Bulletin - Issues 476-500, page 11",
          "text": "Spread out the wet mixture of sand and cement so that two framefuls of screened gravel or crushed rock may be placed upon it.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton, Sidney Daryl, Charles Robert Morley, The Pall Mall Magazine - Volume 51, page 320",
          "text": "And all she saw was a frameful of twinkling stars and inky scrub between the posts and lintel of a bush verandah.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, The Pharmaceutical Era - Volume 46, page 516",
          "text": "Several framesful of old patent medicine and revenue stamps bore out the date on the sign.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935, Sir William Beach Thomas, Village England, page 43",
          "text": "The sparrows had done exactly the same ; and in one garden, at any rate, had expressed their unseasonable hunger by falling on a frameful of lettuces and devouring the best leaves, just as the pigeons are skeletonising the turnips on adjacent tilths.",
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          "ref": "1945, The Rotarian - Volumes 66-69, page 40",
          "text": "After you've made a frameful of wall, remove the bolts, detach the frame, and slide it along for the next section.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Madelaine Duke, The Lethal Innocents, page 13",
          "text": "The two of them walk along the wall gazing at the framed objects- which could, I suppose, be called collage-work. I recognize a frameful of typewriter parts put together to resemble a procession of cripples.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Lloyd E. Eighme, The country way, page 138",
          "text": "Each box contains ten light wooden frames which enclose the honeycomb so that you can lift it out one frameful at a time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Alex Reid, Prestel 1980, page 2",
          "text": "Included in the decoder is a memory or store which retains a frameful of information sent by the computer and displays it continuously on the TV.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, Collected Letters: 1874-1897, page 240",
          "text": "Archer has a frameful on his wall. One of them, Nora holding the tambourine aloft, has a touch of the woman at her completest and noblest.",
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          "text": "In the old days each frameful was of one colour; but now, by what is called “planting,” an extra colour or two may be worked in the frames, providing it is done judiciously, so as not to produce a perceptible stripe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Farmers' Bulletin - Issues 476-500, page 11",
          "text": "Spread out the wet mixture of sand and cement so that two framefuls of screened gravel or crushed rock may be placed upon it.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton, Sidney Daryl, Charles Robert Morley, The Pall Mall Magazine - Volume 51, page 320",
          "text": "And all she saw was a frameful of twinkling stars and inky scrub between the posts and lintel of a bush verandah.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, The Pharmaceutical Era - Volume 46, page 516",
          "text": "Several framesful of old patent medicine and revenue stamps bore out the date on the sign.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935, Sir William Beach Thomas, Village England, page 43",
          "text": "The sparrows had done exactly the same ; and in one garden, at any rate, had expressed their unseasonable hunger by falling on a frameful of lettuces and devouring the best leaves, just as the pigeons are skeletonising the turnips on adjacent tilths.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1945, The Rotarian - Volumes 66-69, page 40",
          "text": "After you've made a frameful of wall, remove the bolts, detach the frame, and slide it along for the next section.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1980, Alex Reid, Prestel 1980, page 2",
          "text": "Included in the decoder is a memory or store which retains a frameful of information sent by the computer and displays it continuously on the TV.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1985, Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, Collected Letters: 1874-1897, page 240",
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