Meaning of Shipload | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The amount (of cargo) that a ship can carry.
2. Minced oath of shitload.

Equivalents

Examples

“It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have⟳ been a question⟳ with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build⟳ a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise⟳ a vast cathedral in freestone.”

“The Penrhyn slate quarry possibly dates back to the sixteenth century, as it appears that in 1580 Sion Tudor asked the Bishop of Bangor for a shipload of slate.”

“Alas, our shipload of Pelts, upon which we had borrow'd heavily, approaching the Channel, was surpriz'd by one of Monseer's Privateers and like⟳ that, ta'en.”

“But, providing you have⟳ access to a shipload of coloured pencils and a naughty boy to sharpen them, they are a good and valid classroom method with a variety of applications.”

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