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/kˈɑrlˌoʊd/ Listen

Carload

noun

A gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile.

The amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car. Synonyms: boatload, shipload.

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"Carload" Quotes from Famous Books

... opposed both to law and to public policy, afterward defending their outrage in the courts through the brazen aid of venal judges and bringing to Albany (headquarters of their attempted theft) a great carload of New York ruffians, each with a proxy in his soiled and desperate hand—an instrument almost as illegal as the pistol which those hands had doubtless too often fingered if not fired amid the squalor of their owners' ...

— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various

... feverishly. "I get you! I've read about them shrines—only you gotter have churches, and a carload of crutches, and that ...

— The Miracle Man • Frank L. Packard

... the floor of the Board this morning. By the Lord! they fought each other when the Bears began throwing the grain at 'em—in carload lots." ...

— The Pit • Frank Norris

Words linked to "Carload" : large indefinite quantity, gathering, shipload, large indefinite amount, assemblage, boatload