Definitions

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

  • noun The amount a ship can carry.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cargo; as much in quantity or weight as can be stowed in a ship.

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

  • noun The load, or cargo, of a ship.

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

  • noun nautical The amount (of cargo) that a ship can carry.

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

  • noun the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car

Etymologies

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ship + load

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Examples

  • They point out that the wholesale price of chicken dropped 5 percent when the first shipload from the U.S. cleared customs on Oct. 1.

    In poultry war, Russia has a leg up on U.S. Will Englund 2010

  • He was referring to the medical staff aboard and, as they constituted only a round dozen, they could hardly have been called a shipload: he was also conveniently overlooking the fact that every member of the crew, from himself downwards, was also, technically, a civilian.

    San Andreas MacLean, Alistair 1984

  • Each man thinks the shipload is the rottenest gang ever thrown together.

    Golden Lads Arthur Gleason 1900

  • We are exporting dollars by the shipload, which is one huge drag.

    unknown title 2011

  • The real impetus of the Highland emigration to North Carolina was the arrival, in 1739, of a "shipload," under the guidance of Neil McNeill, of Kintyre, Scotland, who settled also on the Cape Fear, amongst those who had preceded him.

    An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893

  • Cities along the Great Lakes used to rule the American economy, manufacturing steel by the shipload.

    Refugees Revitalize Buffalo 2011

  • The economics of bringing over a shipload of individual titles and re-printing them made sense; though the typefaces and bits of presses were usually imported, the raw materials for paper, binding and ink were readily available.

    Matthew Yglesias » Copyright and Author Starvation 2010

  • Cities along the Great Lakes used to rule the American economy, manufacturing steel by the shipload.

    Refugees Revitalize Buffalo 2011

  • Cities along the Great Lakes used to rule the American economy, manufacturing steel by the shipload.

    Refugees Revitalize Buffalo 2011

  • Cities along the Great Lakes used to rule the American economy, manufacturing steel by the shipload.

    Refugees Revitalize Buffalo 2011

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