frameful

English edit

Etymology edit

frame +‎ -ful

Noun edit

frameful (plural framefuls or framesful)

A quantity that fills a frame (any sense).
- 1896, The Leisure Hour, page 391:
  In the old days each frameful was of one colour; but now, by what is called “planting,” an extra colour or two may be worked in the frames, providing it is done judiciously, so as not to produce a perceptible stripe.
- 1912, Farmers' Bulletin - Issues 476-500, page 11:
  Spread out the wet mixture of sand and cement so that two framefuls of screened gravel or crushed rock may be placed upon it.
- 1913, Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton, Sidney Daryl, Charles Robert Morley, The Pall Mall Magazine - Volume 51, page 320:
  And all she saw was a frameful of twinkling stars and inky scrub between the posts and lintel of a bush verandah.
- 1913, The Pharmaceutical Era - Volume 46, page 516:
  Several framesful of old patent medicine and revenue stamps bore out the date on the sign.
- 1935, Sir William Beach Thomas, Village England, page 43:
  The sparrows had done exactly the same ; and in one garden, at any rate, had expressed their unseasonable hunger by falling on a frameful of lettuces and devouring the best leaves, just as the pigeons are skeletonising the turnips on adjacent tilths.
- 1945, The Rotarian - Volumes 66-69, page 40:
  After you've made a frameful of wall, remove the bolts, detach the frame, and slide it along for the next section.
- 1968, Madelaine Duke, The Lethal Innocents, page 13:
  The two of them walk along the wall gazing at the framed objects- which could, I suppose, be called collage-work. I recognize a frameful of typewriter parts put together to resemble a procession of cripples.
- 1976, Lloyd E. Eighme, The country way, page 138:
  Each box contains ten light wooden frames which enclose the honeycomb so that you can lift it out one frameful at a time.
- 1980, Alex Reid, Prestel 1980, page 2:
  Included in the decoder is a memory or store which retains a frameful of information sent by the computer and displays it continuously on the TV.
- 1985, Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, Collected Letters: 1874-1897, page 240:
  Archer has a frameful on his wall. One of them, Nora holding the tambourine aloft, has a touch of the woman at her completest and noblest.