lakeful
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editlakeful (plural lakefuls or lakesful)
- The amount that a lake can hold.
- 1972, Faruk Sümer, Ahmet E. Uysal, Warren S. Walker, The Book of Dede Korkut: A Turkish Epic, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 12:
- Make a lakeful of koumiss; and give a magnificent feast.
- 1996, Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton, Gandhi: Selected Political Writings, Hackett Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:
- A drop of water must yield to the analyst the same results as a lakeful.
- 2006, Zhilin Bian, The carving of insects, page 42:
- Please look at this lakeful of misty rain like water soaking me through, as soaking through a bird's feather.