单词 | boatload |
释义 | boatloadn. 1. The amount of cargo or number of passengers which will fill a boat or ship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > cargo > shipload or boatload shipfulc1275 ship1455 barge-load1609 boatload1625 ship-burden1647 canoeload1684 ship-load1707 float1776 ship-laden1857 1625 J. Davis in S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. 119 The sixe and twentieth, our Baase came aboord with a Boat-load of Pepper. 1669 E. Byland in St. Papers, Dom. 151 I have fetched a boat-load of reed from Ham Creek. 1680 in Rec. Court of New Castle on Delaware (1904) 442 Wee have sent away a boat load. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 68 Many a Boat Load of smuggl'd Ware, has he popt forth at his Gun-room Ports. 1745 J. MacSparran Let. Bk. (1899) 27 In the last Boat-load..I lost my dear Servant. 1777 J. Goodwin Mil. Jrnl. 22 Feb. in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1909) XLV. 209 Three Boat Loads of Household Furniture Belongin to Mr Tolman. 1838 W. L. Rham Outl. Flemish Husbandry iv. 21 in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) (1840) III These tanks are generally filled by boat-loads brought from the large towns. 1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 19/2 Presently my ears and eyes told me that it was a boat-load of natives. 1885 S. Harris Coaching Age xxi. 419 Fish sold by the boatload by auction on the beach as the boats came in. 1956 K. Clark Nude iii. 76 Boat-loads of tourists. 1990 C. Dickey Expats 3 Riots began at the port when a boatload of bananas arrived from Nicaragua: a frenzy over fresh fruit. 2010 Independent 6 July 29/4 The government struggles to cope with boatloads of asylum seekers who filled an offshore detention centre. 2. A large amount, a great deal. by the boatload: in large amounts; in abundance. Cf. shedload n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount felec825 muchc1230 good wone1297 plentyc1300 bushelc1374 sight1390 mickle-whata1393 forcea1400 manynessa1400 multitudea1400 packc1400 a good dealc1430 greata1450 sackful1484 power1489 horseloadc1500 mile1508 lump1523 a deal?1532 peckc1535 heapa1547 mass1566 mass1569 gallon1575 armful1579 cart-load1587 mickle1599 bushelful1600–12 a load1609 wreck1612 parisha1616 herd1618 fair share1650 heapa1661 muchness1674 reams1681 hantle1693 mort1694 doll?1719 lift1755 acre1759 beaucoup1760 ton1770 boxload1795 boatload1807 lot1811 dollop1819 swag1819 faggald1824 screed1826 Niagara1828 wad1828 lashings1829 butt1831 slew1839 ocean1840 any amount (of)1848 rake1851 slather1857 horde1860 torrent1864 sheaf1865 oodlesa1867 dead load1869 scad1869 stack1870 jorum1872 a heap sight1874 firlot1883 oodlings1886 chunka1889 whips1888 God's quantity1895 streetful1901 bag1917 fid1920 fleetful1923 mob1927 bucketload1930 pisspot1944 shitload1954 megaton1957 mob-o-ton1975 gazillion1978 buttload1988 shit ton1991 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. lxxv. 373 Here they are selling the sublime and beautiful by the boat-load! 1897 Ludgate Dec. 224/2 He seems to be a sort of a kind of a bushbaptist and general strikerdown, wid boatloads of theories. 1956 A. Ginsberg Howl & Other Poems 18 Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions the whole boatload of sensitive bullship! 1987 R. Hall Kisses of Enemy (1990) iv. lc. 508 A boatload of politicians being photographed in flagrante delicto with a wellknown prostitute. 1991 Texas Monthly July 129/1 Even then, a single heroic John Wayne was likely to kill less-skilled redskins by the boatload. 2007 Wine & Spirit May 71/2 Strict selection and modern techniques give it a beguilingly soft mouthfeel, but underneath is a boatload of fruit and firm tannin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1625 |
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