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gustful

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Gustful (noun) means the amount of something, such as wind, that one gust brings.

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The amount of something, such as wind, that one gust brings.

"The birds began to drop, loose bundles of feathers that bounced as they hit the ground, and made an ankh as the last gustful of wind was knocked out of them." — Anthony West (1955)

"The wind, ruffling up the lane, drove a gustful of loose sand against her like spray, and bore in the hollow boom of breaking waves, which seemed to take her breath." — Jane Barlow, A Woman Ever Vext (1909)

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