cartload
2
3.5
- noun
- /ˈkɑrtloʊd/
- Informal
:
carga de carro
- Tuck drives a cartload of barrels.
- a cartload of money
Examples
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She comes every morning now to pick up the cartload of laundry those two girls manage to mess up in a night.
Fiction book (1994) -
"How'd you get out of the draft, man?" Red and I were pushing a cartload of hardwood into a storage room.
Fiction book (1998) -
- I hope you've got a cartload of it.
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Why don't you just pay me in cotton or a cartload of watermelons?
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"If it's baubles you want, I'll give you a cartload when we get to Arabel.
Fiction book (1992) -
He draws cartloads of produce and homemade bricks to the village on market day.
Fiction book (2002) -
The Abbe settled the bickering by replacing the charcoal with a cartload of wood from his own forests.
Fiction book (1992) -
"Early in the morning," cartloads of people from the country were seen rolling in, while others, of little more aristocratic pretensions, were coming in their buggies, carryalls, etc.
Academic text (2014) -
Women loved her clothes and bought them by the cartload.
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Would you like any help with your gardening? I have a cartload of extra carrots.
Synonyms
278
1.1
An amount of things carried at one time, like cargo on a vehicle
65
1.0
A large number or amount of things
45
2.9
A very large amount about as much as fills a truck
24
1.0
The usual amount of food or drink in one cardboard box, like milk
23
2.3
A group of people that a bus carries
22
6.3
The goods carried by a vehicle like an airplane or truck
18
3.5
A very large amount of something
9
2.9
A large number of people or things that fill a car
5
8.5
A very large amount of something said jokingly
4
3.8
The number of people or things on one plane trip
4
1.1
An amount that fills a bag, like apples or candies
3
9.1
A very large amount of something
3
2.5
A large amount of goods carried by a ship
2
3.2
A large amount of goods that one train can carry
2
2.7
As many things as fit in a basket
2
4.4
An amount that fills a large suitcase or a car's storage space
1
1.9
An amount that fills a box
1
3.2
An amount that fills a sack, like a large bag of apples
1
9.9
A very large amount of something used in rude, informal speech
1
3.4
An amount of goods that fills a van
1
1.0
A large number or amount of something
1
2.7
An amount that fills a truck
1
4.5
A very large amount, like enough to fill a wagon
1
3.0
A full load that fills a cart
1
8.1
An amount large enough to fill a ship with goods or people
A full load of people or things in a boat
An amount that fills a wagon
An amount that fills a wheelbarrow
An amount that fills a carton like a milk box
A very large amount of something you have or get
A very large amount of something said in a rude way
Idioms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cartload is made from cart and load. A cart is 'a small vehicle for carrying things' and a load is 'the amount you put into it', so a cartload is what fills a cart and today often means 'a large quantity'.