cartload means the amount that a cart can carry.
cartload is pronounced /ˈkɑːt.ləʊd/.
Etymology
From Middle English cartlode, cartelode, equivalent to cart + load.
noun
- The amount that a cart can carry.“Two days of skirmishing outside the town were followed by a bold sortie headed by a dervish; and, as the result of this affair, a cartload of heads was sent as trophies to Constantinople.”
- Any large amount.“. . . although a little apt to get buried under a cartload of written pleadings, . . .”
- A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.