cartload

plural cartloads

1. The amount that a cart can carry.

   The youngster put some cartloads of food into his bag and set out again.

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 101

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   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

   Synonyms: cartful

2. broadlyAny large amount.

   . . . although a little apt to get buried under a cartload of written pleadings, . . .

   1850, Edward Everett, The Mount Vernon Papers

   Synonyms: abundance, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, busload

3. historicalspecificallyA load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.