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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