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carload
[ kahr-lohd ]
noun
- the amount carried by a car, especially a freight car.
- the legal minimum weight entitling a railroad shipper to a rate carloadrate lower than that charged for less than this weight.
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For the most part, a carload of randy frat boys causes Metro Vice more headaches than the CES crowd.
He recalls calling a meeting when “American Gypsies were flooding in by the carload” to Milwaukee.
A carload of German tourists had been killed the week before; there was nothing to stop them.
I believe they are going to get hauled by the carload in November.
Then they dumped in carload after carload of rock and gravel; but the muskeg absorbed it and waited for more.
She had a carload of groceries, and I helped her put them in the house.
Paper could not be obtained for printing, and a carload of brown wrapping paper was used.
Only low-grade and long haul carload traffic can profitably be concentrated.
Nor can local business in less than carload lots profitably be concentrated beyond a certain point.
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