Meaning of hourful | Babel Free

Definitions

Enough to last an hour.

Examples

“The silver tufts of grass have⟳ fed the air with hourfuls of mealy ferine smells and hot-backed buzzards, eagles and vultures must have⟳ chased their murderous shadows through the bush”

“Hills to the north and to the south shut⟳ in all the dampness and shut⟳ out hoursful of sun.”

“Arriving about 1 A.M. at Locknan's Station, a few log⟳ and timber huts near a creek well feathered with white oak and American elm, hickory and black walnut, we found beds and snatched an hourful of sleep⟳.”

“A German professor always gives good measure⟳, a full hourful, pressed down, shaken together, and running over; no period of preliminary meditation on what he shall say⟳ and of casual conversation at the end⟳, as often in America.”

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