Meaning of laneful | Babel Free

Definitions

A quantity that fills a lane.

Examples

“He had no taste⟳ for the northern plough; nor, on the other hand, did he intend⟳ to run⟳ his head against the laneful of carriage and foot folk, that apparently cut⟳ him off from the best of the Vale of Belvoir.”

“"Muuh, muuh, moo, moo," the calls came thick and fast. They sounded like⟳ a whole laneful of heifers.”

“He tells how the parson, in gown and cassock, "with the parish Bible in his hand, and a sickle strapped behind him," opens the harvest⟳ by leading a laneful of farmers, laborers, wives, and children to the first ripe field, where he heaves up the rail across the gate, offers a prayer, reads the Scripture, and then cuts the first three "swipes" of corn.”

“Just then a crunching came to my ears; the crunching became a crashing, and round the corner of the birches dashed an agitated black mass, diving into the hollow, surging up over its crest, and roaring straight at me in full flight — a laneful of wildness!”

“Here beneath them the bloom of the golden-rod is upon the land⟳; fieldsful and lanesful, it bars your way, or brushes your shoulders as you pass⟳.”

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