Meaning of hedgeful | Babel Free

Definitions

An amount held in a hedge.

Examples

“One thrush or robin may mutilate a hundred bunches of grapes in a day, with one or two pecks at a bunch, and Nature “does the rest.” Count the robins by flocks and the thrushes by hedgefuls, and what one knows all soon know, and they go to the place where food is plentiful—the result can be easily computed.”

“Hedgesful of fragrant flowers are beautiful too, but nothing can attain the supreme beauty of these great gnarled trees, their black branches heaped high with scented snow.”

“The very last thing a proper lady would ever do is allow her face to get so dangerously close to a hedgeful of bristles.”

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