wagon-load, waggon-load
As much as a wagon can carry. (Often used hyperbolically.)
| 1721 Cibber Refusal i. i, Well, how goes Mississippi, man? What, do they bring their money by waggon loads to market still? 1728 Young Love Fame i. 87 Imperious some a classic fame demand, For heaping up with a laborious hand, A waggon-load of meanings for one word. 1801 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 471 A waggon-load [of wheat] is 12 or 14 barrels; each barrel 196 lib. weight. 1837 Dickens Pickw. v, He wouldn't shy if he was to meet a vaggin-load of monkeys with their tails burnt off. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 66 He carries with him..a waggonload of plate. 1913 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough vii. Balder I. iv. 118 The butchers were rewarded with a waggon-load of wine. |