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Terms vs Mineful - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and mineful

is that terms is while mineful is an amount sufficient to fill a mine.

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    mineful

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  • An amount sufficient to fill a mine.
  • * 1920 , Harry A. Frank, Roaming through the West Indies , Blue Ribbon Books (1920), unnumbered page:
    • The Americans abandoned what had become a more than useless concession, and to-day a mineful of water, colored with copper sulphates and lapping undetermined streaks of ore, remains the property of the Virgin of Cobre.
  • (figuratively) A large amount, particularly of something obtained through mining.
  • * 1892 , Horace Smith, "My Boating Song", in Interludes: Being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses , Macmillan and Co (1892), page 117:
    • Oh this earth is a mineful of treasure,
    A goblet, that's full to the brim,
  • * 1990 , , His Little Women , Pocket Books (1991), ISBN 9780671701246, page 185:
    • I had taken all this with a mineful of salt and had not been calling Violet more often.
  • * 2008 , James Lear, The Secret Tunnel , Cleis Press (2008), ISBN 9781573443296, page 44:
    • Next came a glittering cloud, all wisps and sparkles, which eventually revealed itself to be Miss Daisy Athensasy in a swansdown-trimmed gown and a mineful of diamonds.

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