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Carload   /kˈɑrlˌoʊd/   Listen
Carload

noun
1.
A gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile.
2.
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



... a banker instead of a United States Senator. If this is what a Senator has to do when he comes back to his home, I think he'd better stay in Washington and send down a carload of food and stick a glove on the handle of the town pump and let his constituents operate that! At any rate, the power wouldn't be wasted ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... informs us that a carload of antimony, ten tons in all, was lately received by C.L. Oudesluys & Co., from the southern part of Utah Territory, being the first antimony received in the East from the mines of that section. The antimony was mined about 140 miles from Salt Lake City. The ore is a sulphide, bluish gray ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 • Various


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


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