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Definition of Shelfful
1. Noun. The amount that a shelf will hold. "He bought a shelfful of books"
Definition of Shelfful
1. Noun. Enough to fill a shelf. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shelfful
1. as much as a shelf can hold [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shelfful
Literary usage of Shelfful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1903)
"essay was written, the Wiclif Society has given to the world a handsome shelfful
of the great teacher's hitherto unprinted writings. GEORGE M. WRONG. ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1912)
"So here you are, with quite a shelfful of sea tales to choose from. An old sailor
I knew, and a writer as well, Charles Warren Stoddard, who had run away to ..."
3. The Bookman (1911)
"The Boer War has given us already an extensive shelfful of fiction, good, bad
and indifferent—chiefly indifferent. And of the good it is fairly safe to say ..."
4. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1908)
"A chance newspaper paragraph on the father gives a most prepossessing picture of
the man, and makes one wish for a shelfful of his books ( if he wrote so ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1895)
"The famous essay on Warren Hastings has provoked a shelfful of literature, more
or less convincing, until the reader, who has not forgotten that change of ..."
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