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beamful

adj

Etymology

From beam + -ful.

  1. inherited from bēamian
  2. inherited from bemen
  3. derived from *bʰew-✻ — “to grow, swell”
  4. inherited from *baumaz✻ — “tree, beam, balk”
  5. inherited from *baum✻
  6. inherited from bēam — “tree, cross, gallows, column, pillar, wood, beam, splint, post, stock, rafter, piece of wood”
  7. inherited from beem
  8. suffixed as beamful — “beam + ful”

Definitions

  1. Beamy

    Beamy; radiant; luminous.

    • Let each succeeding page Still boast those charms, and luminate the age; So shall thy beamful fires with light divine, Rise to the sphere, and there triumphant shine.
    • And Monsieur Le Donkey's pleased beam is twice as beamful as it was over the stage business with the sauce.
    • I can recall the tall, slender man-boy, with the large beamful eyes, soft brown beard and moustache, long swinging stride, careless dress, lounging habits, and incessant oratory.

  2. A quantity in a beam (of wood, of light, etc)

    • Phialai of similar size would be divided into convenient " beamfuls " or weighing-lots.
    • Susan committed those confused, tragic eyes of hers to me, fixing on rhy stare, perhaps for some optical beamful of compassion.
    • Behind the olde worlde postcard village, the timbers are rotting away by the beamful and the corpses are piling up.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA