The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shipful
Shipful \Ship"ful\, n.; pl. Shipfuls. As much or as many as a ship will hold; enough to fill a ship.
Wiktionary
shipful
n. As much as a ship will hold.
Usage examples of "shipful".
He had a shipful of evidence and two live Solarians who could be forced to confirm it.
A glider train from Mare Erythraeum brought in several huge crates of machinery, cut-stone masonry for building a wall, a shipful of new personnel, and a real rarity: lumber, cut from the first Earth-trees to be grown on Mars.