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Shipload   Listen
noun
Shipload  n.  The load, or cargo, of a ship.






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"Shipload" Quotes from Famous Books



... had just established an unlooked-for peace, he had also purchased a whole park of artillery of the very latest patterns, and that for range and accuracy the guns were held to be supreme. These would follow before long, and with them their proper ammunition, with a shipload of the same to ...
— The Lady of the Shroud • Bram Stoker

... tonnage, and for the most part dependent for speed on the oar rather than the sail. The labor and cost of carriage are just as great, whether they import common or precious stone, and therefore the natural tendency would always be to make each shipload as valuable as possible. But in proportion to the preciousness of the stone, is the limitation of its possible supply; limitation not determined merely by cost, but by the physical conditions of the material, ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3) • John Ruskin

... Government had abandoned us; that it cared little or nothing for us, since it could hire as many more quite readily, by offering a bounty equal to the pay which would be due us now; that it cost only a few hundred dollars to bring over a shipload of Irish, "Dutch," and French, who were only too glad to agree to fight or do anything else to get to this country. [The peculiar impudence of this consisted in Bradley himself being a foreigner, and one who had only come out under one of the later calls, and the ...
— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy



Words linked to "Shipload" :   carload, large indefinite amount, boatload, large indefinite quantity



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