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wainful en · NOUN

Etymology

From wain + -ful.

Meanings

1. A quantity that fills a wain; wagonful.
   • It is a pleasant picture to dwell on ; the farm, a small state. in itself, with the mowers and gleaners singing about the last wainful of corn ; 1896, Twentieth Century - Volume 16, page 9:
   • It's not just the English wine, he's doing hay-wain rides around les vignes where exactly the wainful of hay is supposed to have come from on a farm covered in grapevines I can't tell you– pick-and-press days, bottle-your-own sessions, with labels for the kiddies to colour in, Christmas wine clubs, cheese and wine-tasting nights with a band and dancing. 2008, Catriona McCloud, Straight Up:
   • They were guided "by a man in a long smock with girdle and scarf of green," and drew "a wainful of children dressed as woodland gods, tossing daisies and field flowers as they went along." 1972, Alf Evers, The Catskills: From Wilderness to Woodstock, page 542:
   • Farmer John and his comfortable wainful, has the best of my Lord Grateswel, in his uncomfortably aristocratic coach,—for “First come first served,” is the Grasmere Sports' motto. 1879, Routledge's Every Girl's Annual, page 302:

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