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Carload

noun

A gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile.

The amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car. Synonyms: boatload, shipload.

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"Carload" Quotes from Famous Books

... like this the roots of the orange trees would suffer from it. These weeds shelter the roots from the sun, and they help keep the moisture in the ground. They are worth everything to us. Of course, in some of the fields we mulch to keep the ground damp. Milo bought a whole carload of Australian pine needles. last month at Miami. They make a splendid mulch. Wild hay is good. too. So is straw. But the pine needles are cheapest and easiest to get. The rain soaks down through them into the ground. And they keep the sun from drawing it back again. Besides, ...

— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune

... submitted samples of nuts of medium, but uniform size and good quality, to a grocery firm in New York. They replied that they would take nuts like the samples at twelve and a half to fifteen cents a pound in carload lots, when the common run of pecans could be purchased at four or five cents ...

— The Pecan and its Culture • H. Harold Hume

... was the merest parody of purchase and opposed both to law and to public policy, afterward defending their outrage in the courts through the brazen aid of venal judges and bringing to Albany (headquarters of their attempted theft) a great carload of New York ruffians, each with a proxy in his soiled and desperate hand—an instrument almost as illegal as the pistol which those hands had doubtless too often fingered if not fired amid the squalor of their owners' ...

— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various

... "He wired right through to Chicago for most of a carload of flour and eatables, but that car got billed wrong somehow, and now they're looking for her up and down the side-tracks of the Pacific slope. Larry's men will be getting savage. It is not nice to be hungry when there's forty ...

— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss

... enrolled. Of course, we know many of the students now. That makes a difference. Still, there isn't the same chill in the social atmosphere that there used to be. Here comes our good old chauffeur, Leila Greatheart. She has been obliging and unselfish enough with us all to deserve a carload of May baskets. How many are you ...

— Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore • Pauline Lester

Words linked to "Carload" : gathering, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, assemblage