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形容詞

herdful (comparative more herdful, superlative most herdful)

1. (obsolete) Rich in herds (of cattle etc.).
   • 1872, Samuel Ferguson, Congal: A Poem, in Five Books, Dublin: Edward Ponsonby, page 17:

     […] Spoiled of Orgallia's green domain, of wide Tir-Owen's woods, / Of high Tir-Conal's herdful hills and fishy-teeming floods; / Of all the warm vales, rich in goods of glebe-manuring men, / That bask against the morning sun along the Royal Glen.

語源 2

From herd +‎ -ful (noun-forming suffix).

名詞

herdful

1. The amount that constitutes a herd.
   • 2005, Audrey Pavia, Janice Posnikoff, “Understanding Horses from Head to Hoof”, in Horses For Dummies, 2nd edition, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 28:

     In addition to decreasing your odds of being the unlucky item on the big cat's menu, being in a herd also means that you can find out about impending danger much sooner than you would if you were alone. After all, a herdful of eyes is better than one measly pair.