footful

An amount that can be picked up by one foot.

Mrs. Terrapin, having selected a place to her liking, moistens the hard clay, then alternately with the sharp claws of her hind feet, begins scraping out a hole about two inches across, lifting the moist earth, footful after footful.

Why should the owl treat the cuckoo thus? I have not the faintest idea. But she does, and once she clutched a footful of lavender feathers.

A quantity (of something) that covers the foot.

I well remember, in school on a winter's day, looking up and observing some boy or girl, with painful grimaces, surreptitiously caressing a footful of empurpled chilblains.

I slowed to a safer speed to avoid plunging into one of the tidepools and receiving a footful of spines.

The amount of pressure that can be exerted by pressing with one foot.

A fast getaway with a real footful of throttle causes fierce wheelspin and decided judder from the rear axle, ...

You need footfuls of brake, differential power, everything you've got.

A complete set of toes for one foot.

Then I lifted out my leg with a fine footful of toes

Mabob dashed after it and, before the whompem hit the ground, Mabob had sunk a footful of talons into its spine.

A small number, about five.

One of the feetful of marathons that are a study of efficiency, Berlin also boasts supportive crowds and tremendous excitement.

They were rock stars at a time when rock stars were supposed to wear silly clothes. The public just looked on, and up, in admiration. Only a handful, or perhaps a footful, of other rockers have come as close to Elton as being identified with a shoe of their own.