cartload
noun/ˈkɑːt.ləʊd/UK/ˈkɑɹt.loʊd/US
Etymology
From Middle English cartlode, cartelode, equivalent to cart + load.
- inherited from cartlode
Definitions
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.
- The youngster put some cartloads of food into his bag and set out again.
Any large amount.
- . . . although a little apt to get buried under a cartload of written pleadings, . . .
A load
A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
The neighborhood
- neighborloadspecific measure
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for cartload. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA