Meaning of beamful | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

“He set off to get some words take some mysteries: he cut a field of reindeer open a big beamful of squirrels; from there he got many words— all of them useless.”

“A rider on a horse approaches: a torch attached to saddle or bridle illuminates a beamful of plummeting needles of rain, as if to reveal them rather than clarify the way forward for the rider.”

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