Stoveful

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Enough to fill a stove.

    "But of Russia—not England—I am forgetting—with its extremely rich and its, also, extremely poor—with those to whom the expense of stovesful and stovesful of logs is as nothing, and with those to whom the expense of even a single log is well-nigh an impossibility."

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"But of Russia—not England—I am forgetting—with its extremely rich and its, also, extremely poor—with those to whom the expense of stovesful and stovesful of logs is as nothing, and with those to whom the expense of even a single log is well-nigh an impossibility."

Etymology

From stove + -ful.

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