pathful

English

Etymology

From path +‎ -ful.

Noun

pathful (plural not attested)

1. Enough to fill a path.
   • 1960 July 18, “In the Rough”, in Sports Illustrated, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., page 27:

     The rough on this historic Scottish links is a tangled thicket of head-high shrubs called gorse, here growing so densely that it seems to swallow up a whole pathful of spectators walking between holes.

   • 1983, Anthony C. Yu, translator and editor, The Journey to the West, volume 4, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 62:

     A pathful of strange blossoms vying for glamour; […].

   • 1993, Đình Chương Ngô, My Version of Kieu, [San Jose, Calif.], →OCLC, page 153:

     A pathful of tall reeds and grass

   • 1993, The Bulletin, page 10:

     […] the “fight” is about on a par with a “battle” between an individual in hobnailed boots and a pathful of garden quails.

   • 1996, Stephen Owen, editor and translator, “The Yuan and Ming Dynasties”, in An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, section “Tang Xian-zu, Peony Pavilion: Selected Acts”, subsection “Waking Suddenly from Dream (X)”, page 887:

     A whole pathful of fallen flowers go off down to the waters, this is the morning young Ruan Zhao reaches Mount Tian-tai.

   • 2000, Jeanette Strack-Zanghi, “January 27, 2000”, in Soul Voices, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 27:

     Rainbows in heaven / Wise serpent hissing / Pathful of daisies / December winds.