Meaning of gloveful | Babel Free

Definitions

As much as a glove can hold.

Examples

“She could stand on a rocky surface, scoop up a gloveful of dirt, and explore extinct volcanoes and ancient canyons.”

“[Abe] Roth stepped between the boys, the fans thinking he was going to stop the slaughter. He didn’t and [Nick] Peters threw in 15 glovesful that dropped [Orville] Drouillard for nine.”

“On a clouting keynote the bout sprung underway, each man ripping across gloves[-]ful of punishment in neutral corners.”

“But against Louis or any other first flight heavyweight? Not with two glovesful of cast iron shamrocks.”

“[Klaus] Weisman picked up two glovesful of snow and whirled it into the air.”

“Hundreds of earwigs and silverfish and slate-gray potato bugs scrambled in the glovesful of dirt I lifted from the pile and then sorted over a mayonnaise jar behind the back porch.”

“Called the greatest player of all time by Babe Ruth, [John Henry] Lloyd was an itinerant shortstop in the Negro leagues who reminded more than one observer of Honus Wagner, not least for the way both scooped glovesful of infield dirt with each ground ball.”

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