shipfuln.
/ˈʃɪpfʊl/ As much or as many as a ship will hold.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > cargo > shipload or boatload
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ship1455
barge-load1609
boatload1625
ship-burden1647
canoeload1684
ship-load1707
float1776
ship-laden1857
the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > a load as a quantity > amount that fills a ship
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boatful1422
keelful1478
ship-load1639
steamerful1886
smackful1890
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11824 Don he hit nolde for a scip ful [c1300 Otho sipfol] of golde.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 917 He mette in þe se Þritti ssipuol [v.r. schipes fol] of men.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 507 Ther was not a schip-ful of men.
1511 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 306 Ane schippill of tymmer.
1515 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 97 If thai had bought a shippful Irne.
1527 W. Tyndale Parable Wicked Mammon in Wks. (1573) 62 A C. ton of holy water, a shipfull of pardones.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. xxviii. 68 The Lorde shal brynge the agayne in to Egipte by shippe fulles.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vne Navée de, a ship full of.
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 109 Where ships full of lading, may be had besides large Timber.]
1852 H. Newland Lect. Tractarianism 151 When the people of Ireland by shipfulls go to America.
1856 E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. Introd. 5 Arthur Edwards set out from Yaroslav with a shipful of goods in July 1568.
1910 D. H. Fleming Reform. Scotl. xii. 466 A shipful of the tempest-tossed and starving Spaniards.
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