a. [f. TRADE sb. + -FUL.] Full of trade; fully occupied or engaged in trading; † full of traffic; also transf. indicating busy trade.
1594. Spenser, Amoretti, xv. Ye tradefull Merchants, that, with weary toyle, Do seeke most pretious things to make your gain.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. i. IV. Handie-Crafts, 23. Lo, how our Merchant-vessels to and fro Freely about our tradefull waters go.
1745. Warton, Pleas. Melanch., 272. Through the naked street, Once haunt of tradeful merchants, springs the grass.
1845. Stocqueler, Handbk. Brit. India (1854), 112. Shops and offices are shut up, or their tradeful hum and bustle all but stagnated.
