planterful

planterful

English

Etymology

planter +‎ -ful

Noun

planterful (plural planterfuls or plantersful)

1. As much as fits in a planter.
   • 1887, Count Lyof N. Tolstoi, Iván Ilyitch, and other stories:

     Give me only three planterfuls."

   • 1977, Prairie Farmer - Volume 149, page 51:

     If you haven't field tested ACO SEED, vve urge you to try a few plantersful . . . right alongside your usual brand.

   • 1985, Farm Journal - Volume 109, page 31:

     "Still, we should be able to find a planterful for anyone who wants to try our seed for the first time," says Garst. Garst plans a "slight increase in prices."

2. A quantity (of something) in a planter.
   • 1975, Mademoiselle - Volume 81, page 175:

     Since mint spreads underground runners, it's soon all over a terrace box. A damp, semishaded hanging planterful will be plenty for summer drinks and salad herbing.

   • 2006, Mignon F. Ballard, The Angel and the Jabberwocky Murders, →ISBN:

     Just last week she had sworn she saw a billy goat in the yard across the street and I had to take her over there to prove it was a planterful of ivy.

   • 2010, Susan Chernak McElroy, Why Buffalo Dance: Animal and Wilderness Meditations Through the Seasons, →ISBN:

     I hung bird feeders, collected driftwood and circled the porch with it, grew a planterful of pansies, and made a fire pit outside where friends and I would roast marshmallows and talk during the long evenings.