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cartload [ˈkɑːtˌləʊd] n 1. the amount a cart can hold 2. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a quantity of rubble, ballast, etc., of between one quarter and one half of a cubic yard 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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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. 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. That wretched nag was to drag all the cartload of them at a gallop |
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