leapful
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[edit]leapful (comparative more leapful, superlative most leapful)
- Full of leaps: requiring one to leap or making many leaps.
- 1753, Aaron Hill, Works - Volume 3, page 147:
- Pity ('tis true) revolves their leapful springs, Smil'd thanks, attoning pray'rs, embracing clings, Sallies of guileless joy, gay gleams offense, Soft stroking flatt'ries — active impotence ;
- 1954, The Virginia Quarterly Review - Volume 30, page 530:
- O leapful look, assault of eye, hurdle the decorous delay.
- 2004, The South Dakota Review, page 55:
- Bony rocks jut up from the water, forming a haphazard, leapful path, a path that looks like a twisted spine, to the bluff on the other side.