wainful

wainful

English

Etymology

wain +‎ -ful

Noun

wainful (plural wainfuls or wainsful)

1. A quantity that fills a wain; wagonful.
   • 1879, Routledge's Every Girl's Annual, page 302:

     Farmer John and his comfortable wainful, has the best of my Lord Grateswel, in his uncomfortably aristocratic coach,—for “First come first served,” is the Grasmere Sports' motto.

   • 1896, Twentieth Century - Volume 16, page 9:

     It is a pleasant picture to dwell on ; the farm, a small state. in itself, with the mowers and gleaners singing about the last wainful of corn ;

   • 1972, Alf Evers, The Catskills: From Wilderness to Woodstock, page 542:

     They were guided "by a man in a long smock with girdle and scarf of green," and drew "a wainful of children dressed as woodland gods, tossing daisies and field flowers as they went along."

   • 2008, Catriona McCloud, Straight Up:

     It's not just the English wine, he's doing hay-wain rides around les vignes where exactly the wainful of hay is supposed to have come from on a farm covered in grapevines I can't tell you– pick-and-press days, bottle-your-own sessions, with labels for the kiddies to colour in, Chirstmas wine clubs, cheese and wine-tasting nights with a band and dancing.