Crossword clues for cartload
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cartload \cartload\, cart load \cart load\n. 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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The amount that a cart can carry. 2 (context by extension English) Any large amount. 3 (context historical specifically) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
WordNet
n. the quantity that a cart holds
Wikipedia
A cartload is usually the contents of a loaded cart.
More particularly, it may also refer to:
- the load, an English unit which appears in Latin documents as the carrus or "cartload"
- the kwian , a Thai unit now equal to 2 kiloliters or 2 cubic meters
Usage examples of "cartload".
On his first trip out of the mine with a cartload of firestone, Maril paused on his return trip long enough to fling some water at Tarik.
His pushing jarred the cartload, and a few pieces of firestone fell off the cart.
The fire startled Maril, who leaped backward, tripped, and, struggling to stay upright, tugged the cartload of firestone back toward the mine.
Ragged masses of vapor drove along the beach, on which the tormented shingles sounded as if poured out in cartloads, while the sand raised by the wind added as it were mineral dust to that which was liquid, and rendered the united attack insupportable.
It might have been said that an immense cartload of rocks had been emptied out there.
Hell have been guilty of cartloads of sins, but it is the sin that defines their actions which determines their fate in Hell.
Torches burned all night along the palisade wall and up on the ramparts, and they had to make numerous expeditions into the forest to haul in cartloads of wood or armfuls of cow parsley and hemlock whose hollow stems, stuffed with fuel, made efficient little torches easy to hold in a hand.
He met with merchants in the hall, too, and soon polished plate appeared on the bare shelves and bright new hangings arrived by the cartload.
Off he trotted with his cartload of money and a heavily armed three-cohort guard to see which Gallic thanes were of a mind to sell at least a part of their harvest.
There were, he said, six in the cartload which he took from Carfax and left at 197 Chicksand Street, Mile End New Town, and another six which he deposited at Jamaica Lane, Bermondsey.
But since what we're likely to get in the Anfract is a cartload of trouble, and that's about all, so far as I'm concerned Dulcimer can have fifteen percent of my share of that any time he likes.
The merchants suffered, as trade goods were tossed wholesale into the river to make way for human cargo, and shortages in the cities ensued as provender was bought up by the cartload from the costermongers who many times sold out their produce before it could arrive at the city markets.
Minutes later, Fleetwood galloped furiously out of camp, a cartload of scrapings from the river bed left untreated and his diamond "cradle" abandoned halfway through the process of concentrating the heavier diamondiferous gravel.
His gaze wandered frequently from his work to the window, where we could see young men riding little tractors with plows behind, sometimes a horse pulling a cartload of something, old women in their kitchen gardens bending, scraping, weeding.
When bound to the stake, two cartloads of fagots and straw were piled up around him, and the palsgrave and vogt for the last time adjured him to abjure.