Wagonload

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The amount that can be loaded onto a wagon.

    "Then they piled up the forests they had cut down into a vast pyre in circuit equal to a city, and having let a lake into the caldron that was to seethe it, and carried for eight months in succession a hundred daily wagons[-]load of salt to season the pot, they kindled the crackling mass, and as it flamed up five galleys, every one of which carried its five banks of rowers complete, cruised round the margin of the caldron sea, and as it bubbled up from below, issued prompt directions to the crowd not to overboil the contents."

  2. 2
    The load of a wagon.
  3. 3
    A type of freight train service in which individual wagons have separate destinations and/or cargos.

    "This firm regularly consigns margarine in palletised wagon-loads to a wide variety of destinations."

  4. 4
    A very large amount. informal

Synonyms

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abundancearseloadassloadbellyloadboatloadbrimful

Example

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"A farm boy accidentally overturned his wagonload of wheat on the road."

Etymology

From wagon + load.

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