cartload

[ kahrt-lohd ]

/ ˈkɑrtˌloʊd /

the amount a cart can hold.

Origin of cartload

1250–1300; Middle English. See cart, load

She laid all the dirt in a heap in the corner, and there was as much as a cartload.

Memoirs of Leonora Christina |Leonora Christina Ulfeldt
At our farmhouse a cartload of evergreens used to come from our grandfather's woods, sometimes through the snow.

The Retrospect |Ada Cambridge
After that it was sold by the cartload as food for the pigs, or went on to the dungheap.

Pelle the Conqueror, Complete |Martin Anderson Nexo
Yes, I used it to pay for a cartload of firewood I bought from a peasant.

The Forged Coupon and Other Stories |Leo Tolstoy

Get the Constitution ready; and all men will swear to it: for do not 'Addresses of adhesion' arrive by the cartload?

The French Revolution |Thomas Carlyle

cartload

/ (ˈkɑːtˌləʊd) /

the amount a cart can hold

a quantity of rubble, ballast, etc, of between one quarter and one half of a cubic yard