cartload
nounUK /ˈkɑːt.ləʊd/ · US /ˈkɑɹt.loʊd/
Etymology From Middle English cartlode, cartelode, equivalent to cart + load.
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.1854 Francis Rawdon Chesney - The Russo-Turkish Campaigns of 1828 and 1829
- The youngster put some cartloads of food into his bag and set out again.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 101:
2
Broadly Any large amount.
- . . . although a little apt to get buried under a cartload of written pleadings, . . .1850, Edward Everett, The Mount Vernon Papers:
3
Historical, Specifically A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
- Derived terms
- as clever as a cartload of monkeys
- Hyponyms
- load