wagonload

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wagonload

noun wagonloads · wagon load · wagon-load · waggonload

  1. The amount that can be loaded onto a wagon. Then they piled up the forests they had cut down into a vast pyre in circuit equal to a city, and having let a lake into the caldron that was to seethe it, and carried for eight months in succession a hundred daily wagons[-]load of salt to season the pot, they kindled the crackling mass, and as it f

    Similar: wagonful

  2. The load of a wagon.
  3. A type of freight train service in which individual wagons have separate destinations and/or cargos. This firm regularly consigns margarine in palletised wagon-loads to a wide variety of destinations.
  4. informal A very large amount.

    Similar: abundance, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, busload, bucketful, bucketload, butt-ton, bumload

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@misc{wagonload_2026,
  title = {wagonload},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wagonload},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}