"woodsful" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: woodsfuls [plural]
Etymology: woods + -ful Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|woods|ful|pos=noun}} woods + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun}} woodsful (plural woodsfuls)
  1. As much as can be found in a woods; forestful.
    Sense id: en-woodsful-en-noun-VW0flJs5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns suffixed with -ful

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1939, Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics, page 144",
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          "ref": "1995, Mary Hufford, “Landscape and History at the Headwaters of the Big Coal River Valley”, in Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virgina, published 2001, page 9",
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