CARTLOAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cartload mean? 

• CARTLOAD (noun)
  The noun CARTLOAD has 1 sense:

1. the quantity that a cart holds

  Familiarity information: CARTLOAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARTLOAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity that a cart holds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("cartload" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

 Context examples 

There were, he said, six in the cartload which he took from Carfax and left at 197, Chicksand Street, Mile End New Town, and another six which he deposited at Jamaica Lane, Bermondsey.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)