wagonloads

Noun

wagonload (plural wagonloads)

1. The amount that can be loaded onto a wagon.
   • Then they piled up the forests they had cut down into a vast pyre in circuit equal to a city, and having let a lake into the caldron that was to seethe it, and carried for eight months in succession a hundred daily wagons[-]load of salt to season the pot, they kindled the crackling mass, and as it...1853 December, “Finis of the Fins”, in Fraser’s Magazine (Fishing Excerpts; volume II), volume XLVIII, number CCLXXXVIII, page 702

   Synonyms:

   wagonful

2. The load of a wagon.
3. A type of freight train service in which individual wagons have separate destinations and/or cargos.
   • This firm regularly consigns margarine in palletised wagon-loads to a wide variety of destinations.1961 September, B. Perren, “The Tilbury Line serves industrial North Thameside”, in Modern Railways, page 359
4. (informal) A very large amount.

   Synonyms:

   abundance, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, busload, bucketful, bucketload