cartload

[ kahrt-lohd ]

noun

1. the amount a cart can hold.

cartload

/ ˈkɑːtˌləʊd /

noun

1. the amount a cart can hold
2. a quantity of rubble, ballast, etc, of between one quarter and one half of a cubic yard

Word History and Origins

Origin of cartload¹

1250–1300; Middle English. See cart, load

Example Sentences

A couple bottles of vodka contain a dose of ethanol equivalent to an entire cartload of pre-modern beer.

From Time

When Josiah went to Springfield to buy any thing, he took a cartload of things with him to exchange.

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The young man went out and came right back in with a little cartload of electric fans.

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They come down on you like a cartload of bricks, flatten you out, and when you don't swell up again they complain of it.

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In the rear of this party of fugitives was a cartload of women and children.

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During the Revolution, for two entire weeks, cartload after cartload of art treasures was carried away from the collegiate.

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