Cartful

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    As much as a cart will hold.

    "My first trip was a shopping run to the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, where the Acadia swallowed a cartful of groceries without even folding the third-row seat."

Example

More examples

"The other day, the fellow who delivers bottled water rattled his cartful of plastic jugs down the hall."

Etymology

From Middle English cartful, cartfull, cartefull, equivalent to cart + -ful.

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