Meaning of winterful | Babel Free

Definitions

A quantity that lasts or is produced during a winter.

Examples

““Maybe it's just a little snow⟳ and not a whole winterful,” suggested Alice, as she climbed out of bed to look⟳.”

“After a winterful of Germans, the Italians seemed gay, cheerful, and hard-working, though their war losses were bitter.”

“Every spring⟳ my mother would throw⟳ open⟳ the house like⟳ a cellar door, and a whole winterful of dust balls, grocery bills, and horehound drops would come⟳ rolling out to linger on the hollyhocks awhile and be caught at last⟳ in the handfuls of slick cottonwood fuzz that tumbled slowly eastward out of town.”

“He will find⟳ that if he goes to New York a week or so in the spring⟳ he may see⟳ the six or eight plays of the season which have⟳ been good enough to last⟳ that long, and that he may thus spare⟳ himself the suffering of attending a winterful of flops.”

“Darkness everywhere, a whole winterful of it at his back.”

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