Dictionary

cartload en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɑːt.ləʊd/ (UK)
• /ˈkɑɹt.loʊd/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English cartlode, cartelode, equivalent to cart + load.

Meanings

1. The amount that a cart can carry.
   • 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:
   • 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
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:
3. (historical, specifically) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.

Forms

Coordinates

trailerload · drayload · less than truckload · carload · wagonload · truckload

Deriveds

as clever as a cartload of monkeys

Hyponyms

load (specific measure)

Synonyms

gob · busload · vaultful · pile · tun · helluvalot · superflux · multiplicity · mountain · lot · heap · shitful · fuckwad · metric fuckton · muckle · fuckton · mickle · bellyload · sight · deal · spadeloads · wagonload · slew · crapload · arseload · mass · buttload · trainload · bucketload · mampus · abundance · bucketful · many · cartload · multitude · assload · lashings · ton · sum · ream · metric shitload · shitton · great deal · battalion · butt-ton · load · hecatomb · boatload · cartful · crapflood · brimful · shitflood · fuckload · bumload · hantle · shitload · truckload · horseload · shedload

Translations (15)

eo plenĉaro (the amount that a cart can carry) · ca carretada (the amount that a cart can carry) · pl wóz (the amount that a cart can carry) · ba арба (the amount that a cart can carry) · ga lód cairte (the amount that a cart can carry) · io charedo (the amount that a cart can carry) · izh vetämys (the amount that a cart can carry) · es carretada (the amount that a cart can carry) · pl sterta (a large amount) · izh vetämä (the amount that a cart can carry) · de Ladung (the amount that a cart can carry) · de Fuhre (the amount that a cart can carry) · pl fura (the amount that a cart can carry) · pl masa (a large amount) · pl kupa (a large amount)