elevatorful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In gathering up the goods of producers the car-load is the common unit, and yet an iron-bound rule in a national statute touching the commerce by rail of 100,000 miles of road, comprehending movements of freight where grain by the elevatorful, coal by the output of a mine, wood by the acre, or sand by the hill, might work inconvenience where the exception would be sanctioned if no monopoly was created against the smaller car-load dealer."
- "They come in elevatorsful, with their children, and their witnesses, and their lawyers."
- "Well, what the hell, any passing observer might observe, some elevators are stronger than others. Yet in each instance an elevatorful comes out at one ton."
- "The delegates trickled up, beginning about 7 p.m., then came by the handfuls, elevatorfuls and hundreds, finally making it all but impossible to move in the hall."
- "Forbidden City with its newly installed terrace was sold out last Saturday night--ten days in advance....The Chinese Skyroom turned customers away be^([sic – meaning by]) the elevatorfuls."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰusder. ▲ Proto-Italic *breɣʷisinflu.? Proto-Italic *leɣʷis Latin levis Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin levō Latin ēlevō Latin ēlevātusder. Middle English elevat Proto-Indo-European *-o- Proto-Indo-European *-nom Proto-Indo-European *-onom Proto-Germanic *-aną Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Old English -an Middle English -en Middle English elevaten English elevate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English elevator Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Middle English -ful English -ful English elevatorful From elevator + -ful.