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cartload

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cart·load  (kärtld)
n.
The amount of something, such as dirt, that a cart can carry.
Cartload a large and mixed quantity; a load or heap, 1577.
Examples: cartload of complaints, 1577; of grievances, 1577; of lies, 1645; of monkeys [‘artful as a cartload of monkeys’].
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Noun1.cartload - the quantity that a cart holds
containerful - the quantity that a container will hold
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One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store.
The Art of War by Sun, Tzu View in context
Every spring they did it; and in the barrels would be dirt and rust and old nails and stale water--and cartload after cartload of it would be taken up and dumped into the hoppers with fresh meat, and sent out to the public's breakfast.
The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context
That wretched nag was to drag all the cartload of them at a gallop
Crime And Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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