The amount that a fence can contain or enclose; as much as fits within a fenced area.
Compound of 'fence' and '-ful' (a suffix meaning 'full of' or 'an amount that fills'). Follows the English pattern of adding '-ful' to nouns to measure quantity.
Words ending in '-ful' are measurement units based on containers—a spoonful, a handful, a fenceful—they remind us that before precise measurements, people judged quantities by what their immediate tools could hold.
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