wheelful
English
Noun
wheelful (plural wheelfuls)
- The amount a wheel can hold.
- 1983, Stephen Jay Gould, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes:
- 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.
- 2016, Sarah Outen, Dare to Do: Taking on the planet by bike and boat:
- Trucks and cars flew past, slinging wheelfuls of heavy slush at me in brown sideways thumps, and I lived for the bus stops where I could shelter and warm my hands on the tea flask.
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