sheetful

English

Etymology

sheet +‎ -ful

Noun

sheetful (plural sheetfuls or sheetsful)

1. The amount that fits on a sheet (any meaning)
   • 1922, Charles Asbury Stephens, A Busy Year at the Old Squire's‎^[1]:

     Of cheese and butter we had a sufficient supply; and the yellow corn-meal which we had brought for the teams furnished sheetful after sheetful of johnny-cake, which Aunt Olive split, toasted, and buttered well, as a groundwork for the white monkey.

   • 1915, Edith M. Thomas, Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit‎^[2]:

     One sheet may be filled while baking another sheetful of cakes.

   • 1895, M. H. Spielmann, The History of "Punch"‎^[3]:

     Then, after an anonymous draughtsman, "M.S.R.," had appeared with a single cut ("Candles"), Mr. F. Wilfrid Lawson, the elder brother and teacher of Cecil Lawson, contributed a sheetful of initials and vignettes which dribbled forth in the paper up to 1876; and Mr. T. Walters, a half-a-dozen, up to 1875. Mr. E. J. Ellis, now better known in other fields than comic draughtsmanship, began on December 12th, 1867.

   • 1875, John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete‎^[4]:

     But as the glimpse of A was not to be had, it was resolved to send for selection by himself glimpses of other letters of the alphabet, actual heads as well as fanciful ones; and the sheetful I sent out, which he returned when the choice was made, I here reproduce in fac-simile.