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armful

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɑɹmˌfəl/Part of speech nounSorted aflmruStarts with AEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the quantity that can be contained in the arms

Word origin

From arm + -ful (suffix forming nouns indicating as much as can be held by the noun to which it is attached).

Used in a sentence

  • Upon this, by Conſent, the Doctors put a Good Armful of Warm Womans Fleſh into the Bed to him, [...]
  • [T]hough Pyrocles and Muſidorus at other times would diſpence with the length of the ſports, yet now, in reſpect of the armfuls of joys they were to expect in bed, they thought them tedious; [...]
  • We have here a handful—an armful would be nearer the truth—on poems on scriptural and sacred subjects.

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