noun
definition
The amount (of cargo) that a ship can carry.
Examples of shiploads in a Sentence
The strongest protests were raised, but the utmost they could effect was that, in 1618, permission was granted to export from Buenos Aires two shiploads of produce a year.
But it is hard to imagine that manufacturers could sell shiploads of cigarettes without knowing where the product was going.
In 1890-1892 he was United States minister to Russia, and during that period had charge of distributing among the Russian famine sufferers more than $ioo,000 in money, and five shiploads of food.
Before the arrival of the "government" and their shiploads of settlers the original colony was reduced to the direst straits.
Sometimes, out of whole shiploads, perhaps containing 1000 containers, only about 10 might be checked with any thoroughness.
Grotesque puppets, animated sets and shiploads of absurd humor are welded into a dark comic-book version of low-life on the high seas.