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sledgeful

noun

Etymology

From sledge + -ful.

  1. derived from *slagjǭ✻
  2. derived from sleċġ
  3. inherited from slegge
  4. suffixed as sledgeful — “sledge + ful”

Definitions

  1. Enough to fill a sledge.

    • Near-synonyms: sledload, sledful, sleighload, sleighful
    • So they gathered and collected / First a large supply of birch-trees, / Pine-trees with their hundred needles, / Trees from which the pitch was oozing, / And of bark a thousand sledgefuls, / Ash-trees, long a hundred fathoms.

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