[f. TOWN sb. + -FUL.] As many as a town contains or will contain.

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1855.  Motley, Dutch Rep., IV. iv. (1866), 617. Had they not slaughtered unarmed human beings by townfuls, at the word of command?

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1894.  Westm. Gaz., 18 June, 7/2. There were in the country not only junkers but big townfuls of poorly-paid working people, whose lives depended on a cheap loaf.

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