Shipload

//ˈʃɪpˌloʊd// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car wordnet
  3. 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."

Etymology

From ship + load.

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