Meanings
- pluralplural of cartload
Wubo, a villager of Li village, wanted to use the wheat straw as firewood, and carried home several cartloads of it.
2010, Fei Wu, Suicide and Justice: A Chinese Perspective, page 1621 more example
There were also 173,387 private alleys cleaned, from which streets, alleys and inlets there were removed *178,495 cartloads of dirt. There were removed from buildings *639,833 cartloads of ashes and *30,472 cartloads of dry waste, and *252,238 cartloads of kitchen garbage, making a grand total of matter removed of *1,101,038 cartloads.
1902 (Jan 2), William C. Haddock, Annual Report of the Bureau of Street Cleaning for the Year 1901
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