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Definition of Shiploads
1. shipload [n] - See also: shipload
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shiploads
Literary usage of Shiploads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Samuel Rolles Driver, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie (1908)
"More strange is the virtue attached to its soil of quickly consuming dead bodies,
because of which, notwithstanding its history, 270 shiploads are said to ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... from which they were formerly exported in shiploads to England and France,
where they were used in the manufacture of lamp-black and manure. ..."
3. The Horse of America in His Derivation, History and Development by John Hankins Wallace (1897)
"two shiploads of Dutch horses, from the same quarter, chiefly mares, ... These two
shiploads added materially to the average size of the horses of the ..."
4. Ocean Steamships: A Popular Account of Their Construction, Development by French Ensor Chadwick, Albert Edward Seaton, William Henry Rideing, John H. Gould, James Douglas Jerrold Kelley, Ridgely Hunt (1891)
"In one year Great Britain carried 616 shiploads of grain, or an aggregate of
nearly 25000000 bushels; Germany carried 167 shiploads, or nearly 4000000 ..."
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