different between rewful vs pewful

Middle English

rewful

Alternative form of reuful
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pew +? -ful

pewful (plural pewfuls)

An amount sufficient to fill a pew.
- 1896, Hubert Crackanthorpe, "Anthony Garstin's Courtship", The Savoy, July 1896:
  The scanty congregation, who had been sitting, stolidly immobile in their stiff, Sunday clothes, shuffled to their feet, and the pewful of school-children, in clamorous chorus, intoned the final hymn.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pewful.

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