Cartload

//ˈkɑɹt.loʊd// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The amount that a cart can carry.

    "Two days of skirmishing outside the town were followed by a bold sortie headed by a dervish; and, as the result of this affair, a cartload of heads was sent as trophies to Constantinople."

  2. 2
    the quantity that a cart holds wordnet
  3. 3
    Any large amount. broadly

    ". . . although a little apt to get buried under a cartload of written pleadings, . . ."

  4. 4
    A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities. historical, specifically

Etymology

From Middle English cartlode, cartelode, equivalent to cart + load.

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