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English
Etymology
From stove + -ful.
Noun
stoveful (plural stovefuls or stovesful)
- Enough to fill a stove.
1878, Selwyn Eyre, “Urgent Preparations Against Another Winter’s Campaign—”, in Sketches of Russian Life and Customs, Made During a Visit in 1876-7, London: Remington and Co., page 120: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.
1902 December 8, “Coal and Cash”, in Morning World-Herald, volume XXXVIII, number 59, Omaha, Neb., page 4:In other words, the parity between stovesful of hard coal and stovesful of legal tender begins with the inaccessibility of either and ends either in an empty pocketbook or an empty coal bin.