different between batful vs barful

English

From bat (“to improve"; as in "battle, batten”) +? -ful.

batful (comparative more batful, superlative most batful)

(dialectal or obsolete) Rich; fertile, as in reference to land or soil.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 3 p. 47[1]:
  The batfull pastures fenc’t, and most with quickset mound,
  The sundry sorts of soyle, diversitie of ground;

bar +? -ful

barful (not comparable)

barful (plural barfuls)

Enough people to fill a bar.
- 1999, Salon It's not funny November
  by the time he figured out that he would not have been required to stand and salute even if "Molly Malone" were the Irish national anthem, he already had a barful of drunken farmers laughing their Guinness-soaked heads off at him.

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