"legful" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: legfuls [plural]
Etymology: leg + -ful Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|leg|ful|pos=noun}} leg + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun}} legful (plural legfuls)
  1. As much as goes on or in a leg.
    Sense id: en-legful-en-noun-JH9ksR31 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns suffixed with -ful Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 93 7 Disambiguation of English nouns suffixed with -ful: 72 28
  2. As much as can be moved by a leg.
    Sense id: en-legful-en-noun-y39qfi3i

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1949, John Gould, And One to Grow on: Recollections of a Maine Boyhood, page 208",
          "text": "It's the things you get besides the smelts— the spring moon over the spruces, the rush of the snow-water through the sets, the sudden excruciating breathlessness when you go in over your boots and have a legful of that same water.",
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          "ref": "2011, Louis de Bernières, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman, page 313",
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          "ref": "2014, Jimmy Dean, Oesophageal Cancer - My Story, page 17",
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          "ref": "2016, Andy Betz, The Lady in Red Quilt",
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          "ref": "2008, Forrest Gander, As a Friend, page 73",
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          "ref": "2013, Bernd Heinrich, The Hot-Blooded Insects: Strategies and Mechanisms of Thermoregulation",
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          "ref": "1949, John Gould, And One to Grow on: Recollections of a Maine Boyhood, page 208",
          "text": "It's the things you get besides the smelts— the spring moon over the spruces, the rush of the snow-water through the sets, the sudden excruciating breathlessness when you go in over your boots and have a legful of that same water.",
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          "ref": "2011, Louis de Bernières, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman, page 313",
          "text": "But Josef's snake was in a state of such rage and pain that it vengefully administered a legful of lethal anaesthetic.",
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          "ref": "2014, Jimmy Dean, Oesophageal Cancer - My Story, page 17",
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          "ref": "2016, Andy Betz, The Lady in Red Quilt",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2013, Bernd Heinrich, The Hot-Blooded Insects: Strategies and Mechanisms of Thermoregulation",
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        "As much as can be moved by a leg."
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