Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The amount of something, such as dirt, that a cart can carry.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A load borne on a cart; as much as is usually carried at once on a cart, or as is sufficient to load it. It is an indefinite unit of weight.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun as much as will fill or load a cart; the quantity that a cart holds. In excavating and carting sand, gravel, earth, etc., one third of a cubic yard of the material before it is loosened is estimated to be a cart load.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The amount that a cart can carry.
  • noun by extension A large amount.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quantity that a cart holds

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From cart +‎ load.

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Examples

  • Not only does this slim device arrive with a cartload of Verizon apps bolted on, but its search button comes locked to Bing, and it leaves out Google Maps in favor of Microsoft's inferior alternative.

    Verizon's Fascinate reaches new lows among smartphones run amok Rob Pegoraro 2010

  • Not only does this slim device arrive with a cartload of Verizon apps bolted on, but its search button comes locked to Bing, and it leaves out Google Maps in favor of Microsoft's inferior alternative.

    Verizon's Fascinate reaches new lows among smartphones run amok Rob Pegoraro 2010

  • Then came the alcoholic years — mostly blurs but yet poems by the cartload from such phrases as the soul cried tears of blood to bucolic ramblings, usually ending with holes in the paper from frustrated pounding of pen or pencil.

    January « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010

  • Then came the alcoholic years — mostly blurs but yet poems by the cartload from such phrases as the soul cried tears of blood to bucolic ramblings, usually ending with holes in the paper from frustrated pounding of pen or pencil.

    jackie langetieg | one book « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010

  • Last week I had to start processing a cartload of art books at work and one was about Tamara de Lempicke, whose artwork I was familiar with but not her life.

    Reading Notes « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • A local farmer stocked the cellar with a cartload of potatoes, onions, carrots, and apples that had to last the winter.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • So I left a cartload of purchased merchandise outside the bathroom and took the babe and my three-year old into the bathroom.

    Hold The Mustard | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • A local farmer stocked the cellar with a cartload of potatoes, onions, carrots, and apples that had to last the winter.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • Food products are being certified vegan, vegetarian, halal, kosher, gluten-free, this free and that free by the cartload and they still taste amazing!

    Naazish YarKhan: Expanding Halal Food's Availability 2010

  • He then gave up the ghost, leaving the immense remains for the grieving servants who carried away cartload after cartload of parts, and some even sank beneath their grief, or the weight borne on their backs, unaccustomed to so heavily precious cargo.

    Best Left Unsaid: intro and ch.01 2010

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