Meanings
nouncartful (plural cartfuls or cartsful)
plural cartfuls · plural cartsful
- As much as a cart will hold.
My first trip was a shopping run to the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, where the Acadia swallowed a cartful of groceries without even folding the third-row seat.
2007 March 25, Lawrence Ulrich, “G.M. Makes a Grand Entrance, at Last, to the Crossover Ball”, in New York TimesSynonyms: cartload
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nounAs much as a cart will hold.
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- Middle Englishcartful
- Englishcartful
From Middle English cartful, cartfull, cartefull, equivalent to cart + -ful.
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Irish lán cairte
- lán cairteas much as a cart will hold
Italian carrata, carrettata
- carrataas much as a cart will hold
- carrettataas much as a cart will hold
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cartful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cartful
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“cartful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cartful. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cartful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cartful.
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