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shipload
noun ship·load \-ˈlōd, -ˌlōd\
: an amount or number that will fill a ship
Full Definition of SHIPLOAD
1
: as much or as many as will fill or load a ship
2
: an indefinitely large amount or number
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First Known Use of SHIPLOAD
1639
Related to SHIPLOAD
- Synonyms
- abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sheaf, lot, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, truckload, volume, wad, wealth, yard
Rhymes with SHIPLOAD
abode, anode, bar code, boatload, busload, byroad, carload, cartload, caseload, cathode, church mode, commode, corrode, crossroad, dead load, decode, diode, displode, download, dress code, dynode, embowed, encode, epode, erode, explode, forebode, freeload, front-load, geode, high road, implode, inroad, live load, lymph node, no-load, off-load, outmode, payload, planeload, postcode, post road, railroad, rhapsode, sarod, side road, Silk Road, skid road, source code, spring-load, square-toed, tetrode, threnode, trainload, triode, truckload, unload, upload, zip code
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