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mineful

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mineful (複数形 minefuls)

An amount sufficient to fill a mine.
- 1920, Harry A. Frank, Roaming through the West Indies, Blue Ribbon Books (1920), unnumbered page:
  The Americans abandoned what had become a more than useless concession, and to-day a mineful of water, colored with copper sulphates and lapping undetermined streaks of ore, remains the property of the Virgin of Cobre.
(figuratively) A large amount, particularly of something obtained through mining.
- 1892, Horace Smith, "My Boating Song", in Interludes: Being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses, Macmillan and Co (1892), page 117:
  Oh this earth is a mineful of treasure,
  A goblet, that's full to the brim,
- 1990, Judith Rossner, His Little Women, Pocket Books (1991), →ISBN, page 185:
  I had taken all this with a mineful of salt and had not been calling Violet more often.
- 2008, James Lear, The Secret Tunnel, Cleis Press (2008), →ISBN, page 44:
  Next came a glittering cloud, all wisps and sparkles, which eventually revealed itself to be Miss Daisy Athensasy in a swansdown-trimmed gown and a mineful of diamonds.

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