"sheetful" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sheetfuls [plural], sheetsful [plural]
Etymology: sheet + -ful Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sheet|ful|pos=noun}} sheet + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun|s|sheetsful}} sheetful (plural sheetfuls or sheetsful)
  1. The amount that fits on a sheet (any meaning)
    Sense id: en-sheetful-en-noun-m8QvUXfQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns suffixed with -ful

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for sheetful meaning in English (2.3kB)

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        {
          "ref": "1922, Charles Asbury Stephens, A Busy Year at the Old Squire's",
          "text": "Of cheese and butter we had a sufficient supply; and the yellow corn-meal which we had brought for the teams furnished sheetful after sheetful of johnny-cake, which Aunt Olive split, toasted, and buttered well, as a groundwork for the white monkey.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1915, Edith M. Thomas, Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit",
          "text": "One sheet may be filled while baking another sheetful of cakes.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, M. H. Spielmann, The History of \"Punch\"",
          "text": "Then, after an anonymous draughtsman, \"M.S.R.,\" had appeared with a single cut (\"Candles\"), Mr. F. Wilfrid Lawson, the elder brother and teacher of Cecil Lawson, contributed a sheetful of initials and vignettes which dribbled forth in the paper up to 1876; and Mr. T. Walters, a half-a-dozen, up to 1875. Mr. E. J. Ellis, now better known in other fields than comic draughtsmanship, began on December 12th, 1867.",
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        {
          "ref": "1875, John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete",
          "text": "But as the glimpse of A was not to be had, it was resolved to send for selection by himself glimpses of other letters of the alphabet, actual heads as well as fanciful ones; and the sheetful I sent out, which he returned when the choice was made, I here reproduce in fac-simile.",
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