ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Shipload

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈʃɪpˌloʊd/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Shipload is a noun meaning (nautical) The amount (of cargo) that a ship can carry.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

  1. Minced oath of shitload.

Example Sentences

Alas, our shipload of Pelts, upon which we had borrow'd heavily, approaching the Channel, was surpriz'd by one of Monseer's Privateers and like that, ta'en.
The Penrhyn slate quarry possibly dates back to the sixteenth century, as it appears that in 1580 Sion Tudor asked the Bishop of Bangor for a shipload of slate.
But, providing you have access to a shipload of coloured pencils and a naughty boy to sharpen them, they are a good and valid classroom method with a variety of applications.
It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone.

Word Forms

Synonyms for shipload

Depending on context, synonyms include boatload, carload.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boatload, carload, shipment, containerload, shippage, shipping.

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