noun.
The amount of something, such as dirt, that a cart can carry.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A load borne on a cart; as much as is usually carried at once on a cart, or as is sufficient to load it. It is an indefinite unit of weight.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
as much as will fill or load a cart; the quantity that a cart holds. In excavating and carting sand, gravel, earth, etc., one third of a cubic yard of the material before it is loosened is estimated to be a cart load.
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noun.
the quantity that a cart holds
Word Usage
"Then came the alcoholic years — mostly blurs but yet poems by the cartload from such phrases as the soul cried tears of blood to bucolic ramblings, usually ending with holes in the paper from frustrated pounding of pen or pencil."