Wheelful
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The amount a wheel can hold.
"The external boundary is surface enough for communication between the organelles of a single cell with their minuscule volumes. But the surface of a wheel as large as a human foot could not provision the wheelful of organic matter within."
- 1 Full of, or bearing, wheels; wheeled.
"The Wheelman for June has just reached us, and we can only say that it seems to be rolling all around the country, and that it is the most wheelful, as well as the wheeliest periodical we ever saw."
Example
More examples"The Wheelman for June has just reached us, and we can only say that it seems to be rolling all around the country, and that it is the most wheelful, as well as the wheeliest periodical we ever saw."
Etymology
From wheel + -ful.
From wheel + -ful. Compare handful.
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