stationful

English

Etymology

station +‎ -ful

Noun

stationful (plural stationfuls)

1. As much as fits in a station.
   • 1873, Saint Pauls Magazine - Volume 13, page 160:

     One good companion is better than a stationful of gadding and gossiping acquaintances.

   • 1989, Sebastian Barry, Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever, page 13:

     […] were the insides of small rooms, stationfuls of hawkers going somewhere, rooms like mine, lights gratefully sleeping on the rivers allowing momentary respite to the watchers, lovers, loners, plain-clothes thieves and such.

   • 2006, Bill Freeman, Hamilton: A People's History, page 57:

     Contributing to the ensuing bedlam was the salute of the Rochester Brass Band which accompanied the American delegation and which now greeted the jubilant stationful of fanatics with the strains of " Yankee Doodle " and "Long Live the Queen."

   • 2013, John Logue, Follow the Leader:

     We have a stationful of drunks, none of them caddies.