Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The amount that can be carried in one arm or both arms.
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- noun A quantity of things approaching the maximum that could be
held orcarried with one arm.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dad would return from work bearing an armload of sweetheart roses for Mom and a small box of chocolates for me.
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A maid, hired to help with preparations for the party, passed through the foyer with an armload of linens.
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Sitting in the cab of the font loader, Billy carries the tune like an armload of cinder blocks.
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Just gather lots of very small dry tinder (dry grass, very small sticks) and an armload of pencil-sized sticks and then your larger wood.
Would putting smokeless gun powder in a water proof match container make good fire starter.
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Kara said she would come over with an armload of bridal planners the next day.
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To be honest, we thought Pritch would walk away with an armload of whatever prizes they give pups in small, local dog shows.
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The day you began shoveling dreams, by the armload, into the basement?
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I don't think so, and yet as I approach Central Square I see a twenty-something kid with a wispy beard getting out of his beat-up Volvo with an armload of LP's on his way to a used record store.
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The small pines are budding, and today he brings an armload of stakes, pocketfuls of baling twine, soft rags to keep the bound seedlings from wind-chafing.
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Grand studio filmmaking at its aristocratic best, Selznick's brainchild nabbed an armload of Oscars, including Best Picture.
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