Pathful

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Enough to fill a path. no-plural

    "The rough on this historic Scottish links is a tangled thicket of head-high shrubs called gorse, here growing so densely that it seems to swallow up a whole pathful of spectators walking between holes."

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"The rough on this historic Scottish links is a tangled thicket of head-high shrubs called gorse, here growing so densely that it seems to swallow up a whole pathful of spectators walking between holes."

Etymology

From path + -ful.

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