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frameful en · NOUN

Etymology

From frame + -ful.

Meanings

1. A quantity that fills a frame (any sense).
   • And all she saw was a frameful of twinkling stars and inky scrub between the posts and lintel of a bush verandah. 1913, Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton, Sidney Daryl, Charles Robert Morley, The Pall Mall Magazine - Volume 51, page 320:
   • The two of them walk along the wall gazing at the framed objects- which could, I suppose, be called collage-work. I recognize a frameful of typewriter parts put together to resemble a procession of cripples. 1968, Madelaine Duke, The Lethal Innocents, page 13:
   • The sparrows had done exactly the same ; and in one garden, at any rate, had expressed their unseasonable hunger by falling on a frameful of lettuces and devouring the best leaves, just as the pigeons are skeletonising the turnips on adjacent tilths. 1935, Sir William Beach Thomas, Village England, page 43:
   • After you've made a frameful of wall, remove the bolts, detach the frame, and slide it along for the next section. 1945, The Rotarian - Volumes 66-69, page 40:
   • Spread out the wet mixture of sand and cement so that two framefuls of screened gravel or crushed rock may be placed upon it. 1912, Farmers' Bulletin - Issues 476-500, page 11:
   • Several framesful of old patent medicine and revenue stamps bore out the date on the sign. 1913, The Pharmaceutical Era - Volume 46, page 516:
   • Each box contains ten light wooden frames which enclose the honeycomb so that you can lift it out one frameful at a time. 1976, Lloyd E. Eighme, The country way, page 138:
   • Included in the decoder is a memory or store which retains a frameful of information sent by the computer and displays it continuously on the TV. 1980, Alex Reid, Prestel 1980, page 2:
   • In the old days each frameful was of one colour; but now, by what is called “planting,” an extra colour or two may be worked in the frames, providing it is done judiciously, so as not to produce a perceptible stripe. 1896, The Leisure Hour, page 391:
   • Archer has a frameful on his wall. One of them, Nora holding the tambourine aloft, has a touch of the woman at her completest and noblest. 1985, Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, Collected Letters: 1874-1897, page 240:

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