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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shipload
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ They used to swap aluminium ore for shiploads of them imported from the Soviet Union.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shipload

Shipload \Ship"load`\, n. The load, or cargo, of a ship.

Wiktionary
shipload

n. (context nautical English) The amount (of cargo) that a ship can carry.

WordNet
shipload

n. the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car; "he imported wine by the boatload" [syn: boatload, carload]

Usage examples of "shipload".

Jefferson and others imagined a tempestuous John Adams expelling foreigners by the shipload.

Atlantic Ocean storms struck them only two days out of Anfa Antiqua, and before even this first tempest had run its course, Timoteo had five shiploads of men whose highest present aspiration was to immediately die.

However, as luck would have it, the first of what was to prove a seemingly endless succession of fierce Atlantic Ocean storms struck them only two days out of Anfa Antiqua, and before even this first tempest had run its course, Timoteo had five shiploads of men whose highest present aspiration was to immediately die.

If we wait, Captain Kambanaros, for the shiploads you demand to be landed and for the Bear to set his bowlegs in motion and bring us help from the north, we shall never free ourselves.

Grabusa a shipload of cinnamon, cloves and musk-nuts, so that the whole of Crete had a sweet scent.

There was much more mystery in a shipload of horses-the nine hundred horses that were galloping through the head of Sir Henry Marquis-than in all the five prosaic years during which young Hargrave had succeeded his father as a jewel buyer.

The Medusae, you know, first promised to conquer our System for the Purples, just for a shipload of iron.

A world was just too large and too varied a place to be surveyed by a single shipload of scientists.

He sent the pasha a shipload of chains and ordered him to capture the rebel Cretans and send them in chains to Constantinople.

Tell us, then: how many shiploads of guns and ammunition and food and tents and horses have you already obtained?

Ten shiploads like this and we would be better equipped than we believed ourselves in the beginning.

I understand it, is less savory than any of the plaiv, involving the sack and conquest of the Shan by shiploads of sea pirates.

I have three shiploads of seasoned warriors 2 back and these fifteen years have made me a seasoned leader of men!

Part weary, part wary, shipload after shipload of people clambered down to the dry land, hauling out their possessions, carrying struggling sheep and goats and children, and standing, once landed, to stare about at this land to which Brutus had brought them.

Captain Aditi continues to sit tight on a shipload of parts I must have and which I begin to despair of ever seeing.