boatload
- the cargo that a vessel carries or is capable of carrying.
Origin of boatload
Examples from the Web for boatload
Contemporary Examples of boatload
Here's hoping Aronofsky's passion project makes a boatload of money—despite its flaws.
As the festival wraps, Ragnar Kjartansson's boatload of musicians play its closing notes.
Expect a boatload of commemorative coins, plates, T-shirts, and baby tchotchkes of all sorts to be sold.
“Google, these big outfits, they get subpoenas by the boatload every day,” Deputy Chief Smith said.
Workers with professional or graduate degrees sometimes make a boatload of it.
Historical Examples of boatload
Can't we eat before we go back for the other boatload, Grandpa?
The Curlytops on Star IslandHoward R. Garis
Just then up the Wabash came a Spaniard with a boatload of valuable goods.
The ConquestEva Emery Dye
Discovering their mistake one boatload of the villains went in pursuit.
Sea StoriesVarious
He says they expect to have a boatload of fish in a week or ten days.
The Shadow PassesRoy J. Snell
In this way he gets a boatload of fish with very little trouble.
boatload
- the amount of cargo or number of people held by a boat or ship