acreful
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2VERB + ACREFUL
blooming, justify
ACREFUL + NOUN
water
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noun
As much as an acre produces or uses.
The California sun was doing what the Chamber of Commerce says it always does; bees were buzzing; larks were bugling; orange marigolds were blooming by the acreful.
As pressures grow for increased Industrial, recreational and urban use of water, agriculture will have to justify every acreful of water it uses.
An unspecified but very large amount.
Also the grant brought troubles by the acreful.
Flowers were all very well and good in their place, growing in the wild, or even a few in a vase on a lady's boudoir table, but when they took over the hall in acresful, it was too much.
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3The California sun was doing what the Chamber of Commerce says it always does; bees were buzzing; larks were bugling; orange marigolds were blooming by the acreful.
WiktionaryAs pressures grow for increased Industrial, recreational and urban use of water, agriculture will have to justify every acreful of water it uses.
WiktionaryIt does not cry for proof, what even one burning spark can accomplish in acrefuls of stubble.
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