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ˈship-load
A load (of persons or things) carried or capable of being carried by a ship.
1639Portsmouth (Rhode Island) Rec. (1910) 10 For men to gett a shipp lood of..pipe stauffes. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 85 He had rather have one Bottle of Brandy, than a Ship-Load of Stamford-Air at any Time. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. ii. §22 Half a dozen Shipload of Minute Philosophers might easily be spared upon so good a design. 1799Nelson 27 Sept. in Nicolas Disp. (1845) IV. 31 He will endeavour to send to me two or three ship-loads of corn. 1875Robertson Hist. Chr. Ch. III. 35 He redeemed whole shiploads of captives—Romans, Gauls, Britons, Moors, and especially Saxons from Germany. 1910D. Hay Fleming Reform. Scot. x. 316 Printed books were sent abroad in shiploads.
So † ship-lading, † -loading.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 274 The Emperour Constantine is said to have transported certaine ship-ladings of this sand unto Constantinople. 1641Hakewill Lib. Subj. 15 A duty given..upon every shiploading of Wine brought into the kingdom by English Merchants. 1642Decl. Lds. & Comm. 7 Jan. 3 Every ship-lading of Coles exported thence for the use of the City of London. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 50 A Ship-Loading of Gold. |