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Wagonload

Wagonload \Wag"on*load`\, n. Same as Wagonful.

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wagonload

n. 1 the amount that can be loaded onto a wagon 2 the load of a wagon 3 In rail terminology, a type of freight train service in which individual wagons have separate destinations and/or cargos

Usage examples of "wagonload".

Hush earned a meager living selling wagonloads of apples to the townsfolk every fall.

He guessed that at least one more wagonload of Jaybirds had come in through the gate last night.

Nevertheless, he went out no more in the daylight but he sent the eldest lad to return the riksha to the place from where he hired it and he waited until the night came and he went to the houses of merchandise and for half what he had earned before he pulled all night the great wagonloads of boxes, to each wagon a dozen men pulling and straining and groaning.

The Faulconer Legion had started the war with three wagonloads of tents but now had only two tents left, both reserved for Doctor Danson.

Tim had ridden off with only Sergeant Rai, a single packmule and an assortment of his oldest clothes, leaving his lances camped in Morguhn and his two wagonloads of loot from the intaking of Getzburk locked in the cellars of Morguhn Hall.

Along with the catapults were two wagonloads of baled pine needles, tinder dry and awaiting the spark which would set them roaring into flame.

Evidently some family from a little village along the road brought a wagonload of them to the camp every day or so, and the campmaster heated them in his own oven.

And, as the Pattern in Rebma had helped to restore my faded memories, so this one I was now striving to create stirred and elicited the smell of the chestnut trees, of the wagonloads of vegetables moving through the dawn toward the Hallos.

Hog's Breath bought the lot of 'em, and when he showed up at the ranch with a wagonload of saucepans and molds and au gratin dishes, Kady was so overwhelmed, she kissed him.

Once upon a time a wagonload of apples could go through the barn door, and bushels of apples were stored in the lofts.

Looking at least halfway respectable now, he gave a black farmer a couple of coins in exchange for letting him ride along with a wagonload of cassavas and mangoes to the town of Port-au-Prince, eighteen miles farther down the coast.

His less savvy side was already halfway to town to buy a wagonload of cotton batting to wrap Elizabeth safely in.

You don't mean to tell me you've overturned a full wagonload of Kingsland Ale, you stupid goat's penis?

Not since we took to shipping the liquor up here by the wagonload, Raj thought.

Michelangelo bought himself a wagonload of logs, set up his worktable in front of the fire and surrounded himself by letters from Baccio d'Agnolo, who was going to help him build a wooden model of the façade, from Sebastiano telling him that a dozen sculptors, including Raphael, were trying to take the façade commission away from him.