noun
Meaning 1
The amount that a cart can carry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cartful
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
cartload
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈkɑːt.ləʊd/
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US: /ˈkɑɹt.loʊd/
noun
Meaning 2
Any large amount.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: abundance, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, busload, bucketful, bucketload, butt-ton, bumload, buttload, cartload, crapflood, crapload, deal, fuckload, fuckton, fuckwad, gob, great deal, hantle, heap, hecatomb, helluvalot, horseload, lashings, load, lot, mampus, many, mass, metric fuckton, metric shitload, mickle, mountain, muckle, multiplicity, multitude, pile, ream, shedload, shitflood, shitful, shitload, shitton, sight, slew, spadeloads, sum, superflux, ton, trainload, truckload, tun, vaultful, wagonload
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, specifically
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
the quantity that a cart holds
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: containerful
History
Etymology
From Middle English cartlode, cartelode, equivalent to cart + load.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bashkir: арба (arba) — the amount that a cart can carry
- Catalan: carretada — the amount that a cart can carry
- Esperanto: plenĉaro — the amount that a cart can carry
- German: Fuhre — the amount that a cart can carry
- German: Ladung — the amount that a cart can carry
- Ido: charedo — the amount that a cart can carry
- Ingrian: vetämä — the amount that a cart can carry
- Ingrian: vetämys — the amount that a cart can carry
- Irish: lód cairte — the amount that a cart can carry
- Polish: fura — the amount that a cart can carry
- Polish: wóz — the amount that a cart can carry
- Spanish: carretada — the amount that a cart can carry
- Polish: masa — a large amount
- Polish: kupa — a large amount
- Polish: sterta — a large amount