wagonload

Noun

1. The amount that can be loaded onto a wagon.
   • Then they piled up the forests they had cut down into a vast pyre in circuit equal to a city, and having let a lake into the caldron that was to seethe it, and carried for eight months in succession a hundred daily...
   • The countryside through which the line passes grows some beet, too. Ten wagonloads a day are despatched from Fethard and smaller quantities from Farranaleen, Laffan's Bridge and Horse & Jockey. - 1957 May 5, Walter...

   Synonyms: wagonful

   Coordinate Terms: carload cartload drayload less than truckload trailerload truckload

2. The load of a wagon.
3. A type of freight train service in which individual wagons have separate destinations and/or cargos.
   • This firm regularly consigns margarine in palletised wagon-loads to a wide variety of destinations. - 1961 September, B. Perren, “The Tilbury Line serves industrial North Thameside”, in Modern Railways, page 359:
   • Tinsley Yard in Sheffield was once one of the largest and most advanced 'hump' marshalling yards in the world. But a decline in wagonload freight led to its swift demise and much of the site has lain derelict since the...
4. A very large amount.

   Synonyms: abundance battalion arseload assload bellyload boatload brimful busload bucketful bucketload butt-ton bumload buttload cartload crapflood crapload deal fuckload fuckton fuckwad gob great deal hantle heap