Shipload
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The amount (of cargo) that a ship can carry.
"It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone."
- 2 the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car wordnet
- 3 Minced oath of shitload.
"But, providing you have access to a shipload of coloured pencils and a naughty boy to sharpen them, they are a good and valid classroom method with a variety of applications."
Example
More examples"It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone."
Etymology
From ship + load.
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