ˈcart-load
The load which a cart can carry.
| a 1300 Havelok 895 A carte lode Of segges, laxes, of playces brode, Of grete laumprees, and of eles. 1626 Bernard Isle of Man (1627) 165 David..that gaue..3300 Cartload of Treasure for the building of the Temple. 1641 S. Marshall Peace-Offering 48 Above three and thirtie thousand cart-load of silver. 1757 tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 322 The many thousand cart-loads of earth or sand, taken out of the catacombs. 1870 Emerson Farming Wks. (Bohn) III. 61 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cartload of tiles. |
b. Often fig. for a large quantity, ‘load,’ ‘heap’.
| 1577 Holinshed Chron. II. 123 Whole cart lodes of complaints and greevances. 1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1647) 158 The Anabaptists brought Cart-loads of lyes to maintaine their..opinions. 1789 J. Wolcott (P. Pindar) Expost. Ode vii. Wks. 1812 II. 230 Of fun you rob him of cart-loads. |