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Definition of Shipload

1. Noun. The amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car. "He imported wine by the boatload"

Definition of Shipload

1. n. The load, or cargo, of a ship.

Definition of Shipload

1. Noun. (nautical) The amount (of cargo) that a ship can carry. ¹

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Definition of Shipload

1. as much as a ship can carry [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipload

Literary usage of Shipload

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"shipload after shipload of those who surrendered were sent over sea for sale into forced labor in Jamaica and the West Indies. More than forty thousand of ..."

2. Canada, the New Nation: A Book for the Settler, the Emigrant and the Politician by Harry Richmond Whates (1906)
"... The New Nation CHAPTER IA shipload OF EMIGRANTS AT five o'clock on a dismal morning in January, after a cold and sleepless journey through the night ..."

3. Eastern Nights by Alan John Bott (1919)
"... CHAPTER XIII A shipload OF ROGUES MICHAEL IVANOVITCH TITOFF, one-time chief engineer of the tramp steamer ..."

4. Eastern Nights by Alan John Bott (1919)
"... XIII A shipload OF ROGUES MICHAEL IVANOVITCH TITOFF, one-time chief engineer of the tramp steamer Batoum, proved to the dissatisfaction of Captain White ..."

5. The American Amateur Photographer (1892)
"It was fortunate for us that the majority of the great shipload of passengers did, not insist upon Pullmans. In fact it appeared to be a difficult problem ..."

6. About Ceylon and Borneo: Being an Account of Two Visits to Ceylon, One to by Walter J. Clutterbuck (1892)
"... CHAPTER XVI A shipload OF EMIGRANTS FOR NORTH BORNEO AFTER a stay of some days, the time came for me to be quitting Singapore, so I said good-bye to the ..."

7. About Ceylon and Borneo: Being an Account of Two Visits to Ceylon, One to by Walter J. Clutterbuck (1891)
"... CHAPTER XVI A shipload OF EMIGRANTS FOR NORTH BORNEO AFTER a stay of some days, the time came for me to be quitting Singapore, so I said good-bye to the ..."

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