flatful

Noun

1. Enough to fill a flat (apartment).
   • [S]he pointedly remarked that they had just moved to the city a month previous, that they were dissatisfied, and would return to Hoosierdom in June. I was completely taken in, and departed without making the assessment....
2. Enough to fill a flat (container).
   • When the first lot of cuttings has been taken from the flat clean out the flat, using new sand for the next lot; never use sand twice. It must not be supposed that all will go as swimmingly as it reads, as there is a...
   • [P]lant the tubers in flatfuls of one of the above mixtures right after the pink sprouts have appeared. - 1949, Norvell Gillespie, “How to Grow Tuberous Begonias”, in Pacific Coast Gardening Guide, Garden City, N.Y.:...
   • It is both irresponsible and greedy to dig up flatfuls of any wild plant. Take a little here and there, on level ground only, and always fill in the hole you’ve made with a generous pile of ground litter and leaves to...