Citations:pewful

Noun: "an amount sufficient to fill a pew"

 * 1886 — Mary E. Wilkins, The Adventures of Ann, Chapter IV:
 * Up sprang the pewful of staunch Pennimans, father and sons, and made for the door in a great rush after John, who was out before the whisper had much more than left Ann's lips.
 * 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.
 * 1898 — Richard Le Gallienne, The Romance of Zion Chapel, Chapter V:
 * At every service of every kind, and at all times, he was there, swelling out from a pewful of ruddy daughters, and endlessly beaming round at his fellow-worshippers, as much as to say, "Didn't I say he was the man for New Zion?"