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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

... feverishly. "I get you! I've read about them shrines—only you gotter have churches, and a carload of crutches, and that ...

— The Miracle Man • Frank L. Packard

... Girl, you don't have to go in there to git no gum. I'll go in there and buy you a carload of ...

— The Mule-Bone: - A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts • Zora Hurston and Langston Hughes

... and his carload of books came to us. He had been a college professor, and years ago when Andrew was a boy Uncle Philip had been very fond of him—had, in fact, put him through college. We were the only near relatives, and all those books turned up one fine day. That was the beginning of the end, if I had only known ...

— Parnassus on Wheels • Christopher Morley

... Magazine, distinguished by the contributions of Washington Irving, the Nestor of American writers, tried to keep pace. Both the Harpers and the Putnams did an enormous business in books of all kinds, now that so many Americans had grown rich. Walter Scott's novels were imported for the South in carload lots, while Dickens's numberless volumes found ready sale in the East, thus showing the different tastes ...

— Expansion and Conflict • William E. Dodd

... keeps their house for 'em—he 'n' his wife—an' Hucks said they was cumin' to spend this summer at the farm an' he was lookin' fer 'em any day. The way they togged up thet farmhouse is somethin' won'erful, I'm told. Hain't seen it, myself, but a whole carload o' furnitoor—an' then some more—was shipped here from New York, an' Peggy McNutt, over t' Millville, says it ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation • Edith Van Dyne

... up to the office of Second Deputy he no longer resented being known as a "rough neck" or a "flat foot." As an official, he believed in roughness; it was his right; and one touch of right made away with all wrong, very much as one grain of pepsin properly disposed might digest a carload of beef. A crook was a crook. His natural end was the cell or the chair, and the sooner he got there the better for all concerned. So Blake believed in "hammering" his victims. He was an advocate of "confrontation." He had faith in ...

— Never-Fail Blake • Arthur Stringer

... 'a' suspicioned you'd stole that horse, you wouldn't take him out of here. Like I said to Cheyenne, last week; he could fetch a whole carload of stock in here and take 'em out again without trouble. He was tellin' me how he lost his horses, and we got to talkin' about some folks bein' blind when they're facin' a brand on a critter. Mebby you heard tell ...

— Partners of Chance • Henry Herbert Knibbs

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