What is "boatload"

Usage examples of "boatload".

They carried no fishing licenses, but had a boatload of illegal booty, including undersize and out-of-season lobster, 458 queen conchs and the remains of a rare loggerhead turtle.

Navy SEAL chief, the man could put a boatload of authority into his voice when he wanted to.

But it makes me realize how important a boatload of material can be for you.

Are you saying you would now like to be so generous as to donate a boatload full of supplies?

When Captain Elliot sent a boatload of sailors to row ashore and fill the casks at freshwater springs, they discovered the wells posted with signs declaring the water was poisoned.

They could not farm there, but individual gardens were made possible by soil patiently carried boatload by boatload from Greater Tilo, Hookk, and Gyre.

There were half a dozen ships, of varying sizes, within his range of vision, and he studied them carefully, while keeping track of the three boatloads of armed soldiers that were now plying between them.

A Jardine-Matheson ship had come into the harbor four days earlier, towing a schooner that had been attacked by seven boatloads of Chinese.

They went on, leaving the two boatloads of innocent-looking Seminoles behind.

But more boatloads came from the shore, and the Saracens were but few, worn also with storm and sickness, so at last Rosamund, peeping beneath her hand, saw that the poop was gained.

There are boatloads of religions and thousands of ways religion is organized and practiced.

God knows how many boatloads of pirates from those damned islands where Bermuda used to be.

And this other guy, Rainer, retired after delivering a boatload of canola into a private facility south of Havana.

That had cost Rumania several boatloads of tobacco and booze and piles of dragonfish and hornfish skins and bones.

For all Proteus could tell, he might well have been one of the boatload of servants who had been scheduled to attend the Argonauts, before Jason and the others woke up to the fact that their narrow ship lacked room for so many non-Heroic bodies.