cartload

Noun

cartload (plural cartloads)

1. 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.1854 Francis Rawdon Chesney - The Russo-Turkish Campaigns of 1828 and 1829
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   cartful

2. (broadly) Any 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, bucketful, bucketload

3. (historical, specifically) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.