Definitions
the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car
Word origin
From ship + load.
Used in a sentence
“The Penrhyn slate quarry possibly dates back to the sixteenth century, as it appears that in 1580 Sion Tudor asked the Bishop of Bangor for a shipload of slate.”
“Alas, our shipload of Pelts, upon which we had borrow'd heavily, approaching the Channel, was surpriz'd by one of Monseer's Privateers and like that, ta'en.”
“But, providing you have access to a shipload of coloured pencils and a naughty boy to sharpen them, they are a good and valid classroom method with a variety of applications.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Cargo amount”8 letters
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