SHIPLOAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shipload mean? 

• SHIPLOAD (noun)
  The noun SHIPLOAD has 1 sense:

1. the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car

  Familiarity information: SHIPLOAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIPLOAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

boatload; carload; shipload

Context example:

he imported wine by the boatload

Hypernyms ("shipload" is a kind of...):

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

 Context examples 

What does the law of England care for the rivers of blood shed years ago in San Pedro, or for the shipload of treasure which this man has stolen?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had read sea-romances in my time, wherein figured, as a matter of course, the lone woman in the midst of a shipload of men; but I learned, now, that I had never comprehended the deeper significance of such a situation—the thing the writers harped upon and exploited so thoroughly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)