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Definition of Boatload
1. Noun. The amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car. "He imported wine by the boatload"
Generic synonyms: Large Indefinite Amount, Large Indefinite Quantity
Definition of Boatload
1. Noun. (slang) A large quantity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boatload
1. the amount that a boat holds [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boatload
Literary usage of Boatload
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal of the Great War by Charles Gates Dawes (1921)
"Another boatload of ties shipped from Spain. CHARLES G. DAWES Colonel, Engineers,
NA March 14, 1918 From: The General Purchasing Agent, ..."
2. The Citizens Book by Charles Roy Hebble, Frank Parker Goodwin (1916)
"CHAPTER III The Founding of Losantiville The First boatload. ... Men alone composed
the first boatload of adventurers who, on Christmas Day, 1788, ..."
3. Putnam's Monthly (1907)
"Nothing else was found, except some mouldering fragments of wood that looked like
spear-staves; and this, too, it seems, must have been a boatload of ..."
4. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"Another of our most attractive pioneer natural- ists, the French artist, Charles A.
LeSueur, also arrived at New Harmony with the "boatload of Knowledge. ..."
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