blockful

English

Etymology

From block +‎ -ful.

Noun

blockful (plural blockfuls or blocksful)

1. An amount that fills a block.
   • 1940, American Magazine - Volume 129, page 25:

     He dragged his eyes away from a blockful of dying embers and looked at the sky.

   • 1970, Charles Morrow Wilson, Backwoods America, page 44:

     For the progressive divine, there are likely to be valley towns with sewerage system and police patrol, and adjacent small cities with their blocksful of souls in need of salvation, not to mention talking pictures, Rotary Clubs, and vaudeville.

   • 1986, Mary Shura Craig, Fortune's Destiny, page 120:

     The trends were clear enough, more handsome cooperatives marching along the lake shore, apartments by the blockful, ornate hives designed to accommodate the growing density of the city.

   • 1990, Noel Perrin, First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer, page 122:

     Three or four blockfuls of New Yorkers could pay their water bills on the interest of what he spent.