Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun As much as a cart will hold; a cart-load.

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  • noun As much as a cart will hold.

Etymologies

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cart +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • And it's worth it, when you're at the cash register, to throw a thing-in-itself down on the conveyor belt behind a bleached blonde with a cartful of “natural” foods.

    What Do You Mean, You Don't Sell Pigs Feet? Con Chapman 2011

  • A vendor at the corner of Summer Street prepared an entire cartful of team paraphernalia.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • A vendor at the corner of Summer Street prepared an entire cartful of team paraphernalia.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • A vendor at the corner of Summer Street prepared an entire cartful of team paraphernalia.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • When the prince who is now king sees me so old with a cartful of bottles and the mirror, he says, what is this peddler woman doing in my castle?

    Mirror Mirror Jessica Breheny 2009

  • When the prince who is now king sees me so old with a cartful of bottles and the mirror, he says, what is this peddler woman doing in my castle?

    Mirror Mirror 2009

  • Oatmeal is cheap and you can by it by the cartful.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Here Comes the Soda Tax? 2009

  • Associated Press Bed Bath&Beyond's co-founders sold a cartful of shares recently.

    Big Seller at Bed Bath: Shares 2009

  • We are accustomed to supermarket checkout clerks deciding to count every last penny just as we have unloaded a cartful of groceries, and we dread even entering the Department of Motor Vehicles.

    The Fly In The Soup 2008

  • They didn't buy my line that he was in the bathroom, forcing me to abandon a cartful of merchandise at the checkout.

    Costco vs Sam's Club Membership 2005

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