"threadful" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: threadfuls [plural]
Etymology: thread + -ful Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|thread|ful|pos=noun}} thread + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun}} threadful (plural threadfuls)
  1. The amount that a thread will hold.
    Sense id: en-threadful-en-noun-6nuwWxJ3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns suffixed with -ful

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1826, Traditions and Recollections",
          "text": "Alas, my friend ! the Fates here spun thy threadful ! Sure, never yet was heard a case so dreadful.",
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          "ref": "1884, Ernest Ingersoll, Country Cousins: Short Studies in the Natural History of the United States, page 235",
          "text": "\"When these beads are worn out ... so that they cannot be strung neatly and evenly on the thread, they no longer consider them as good. Their way of trying them is to rub the whole threadful on their noses; if they find it full and even, like glass beads, then they are considered good, otherwise they break and throw them away.",
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          "ref": "1920, Cecil Frederic Herington, Powdered Coal as a Fuel, page 116",
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