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单词 boatload
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boatloadn.

Brit. /ˈbəʊtləʊd/, U.S. /ˈboʊtˌloʊd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: boat n.1, load n.
Etymology: < boat n.1 + load n. Compare barge-load at barge n.1 Compounds and shipload n.
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.
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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).
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