"herdful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From herd + -ful (adjective-forming suffix).",
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          "ref": "1872, Samuel Ferguson, Congal: A Poem, in Five Books, Dublin: Edward Ponsonby, page 17",
          "text": "[…] Spoiled of Orgallia's green domain, of wide Tir-Owen's woods, / Of high Tir-Conal's herdful hills and fishy-teeming floods; / Of all the warm vales, rich in goods of glebe-manuring men, / That bask against the morning sun along the Royal Glen.",
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        "Rich in herds (of cattle etc.)."
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        "(obsolete) Rich in herds (of cattle etc.)."
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          "text": "In addition to decreasing your odds of being the unlucky item on the big cat's menu, being in a herd also means that you can find out about impending danger much sooner than you would if you were alone. After all, a herdful of eyes is better than one measly pair.",
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