woodsfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

woodsful (複数形 woodsfuls)

1. As much as can be found in a woods; forestful.
   • 1939, Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics, page 144:

     And when he is talking about a whole woodsful of these abstract trees he calls it "some branchy bunchy bushybowered wood," because he wants to feel as though it were here.

   • 20??, Mary Hufford, Landscape and History at the Headwaters of the Big Coal River Valley, page 9:

     1847-84 – Described by the historian William Bone as “a period in which farms were being fully established, a new county government was growing, the wilderness was still very pervasive with giant trees and woodsfuls of predators and bears."

   • 2012, James Still, ‎Ted Olson, The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still:

     Then it wasn't one lonesome critter; it was a woodsful, tearing each others' eyeballs out.

   • 2012, Jean M. Hughes, Walking Around The Sun, page 359:

     The melody from a woodsful of leafless tree-limbs blowing in the wind is not a single sound, but a combination of music from each species, and from each individual tree within a species.