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An armful is how much you can hold in one arm, or in both arms together — a load against your chest. An armful of books, an armful of washing, an armful of flowers. It is a , everyday word, not a science word. The -ful here does not mean “full of arm”; it means “as much as the arm can take,” the same trick as handful and mouthful. You can say two armfuls if you made two trips. Though actually, nobody is measuring with a ruler: “an armful” is rough, like “a lot that I can carry.” It is a noun. You do not say “I am armful,” and it is not the same -ful as in beautiful or harmful, which describe a quality.
一抱（的量）；滿懷
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
armfulnoun/ˈɑɹmˌfəl/
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The amount an arm or arms can hold.
- [T]ake three or four good arms full of muckle Straw, Hay, or Fern, not too wet, not to dry, and obſerving which ſide of the Orchard the Wind blows on, then laying a good armful of muckle in three or four places according to the bigneſs of your Orchard, then get ſome dry ſticks, and having kindled them put an armful of muckle upon the Fire, and it will ſmoak and ſmoother, and the wind will drive the ſmoak through the whole Orchard, continue it till the wind turn out of the Eaſterly quarter, and it will preſerve the Trees and Fruit from blites and all manner of flys and caterpillers, which thoſe ſorts of bliting winds uſually bring; [...]
- Upon this, by Conſent, the Doctors put a Good Armful of Warm Womans Fleſh into the Bed to him, [...]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。