shipload

English

Etymology

From ship +‎ load.

Noun

shipload (plural shiploads)

(nautical) The amount (of cargo) that a ship can carry.
- 1945 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 138:
  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.

Derived terms

Category:English words derived from: load (noun)

Translations

amount of cargo

Dutch: scheepsvracht (nl) m or f
Finnish: laivalastillinen

Anagrams

haploids, holaspid

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