1. a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile;
2. the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car; - Example: "he imported wine by the boatload" [syn: boatload, shipload, carload]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
carload
n 1: a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile
2: the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a
freight car; "he imported wine by the boatload" [syn:
boatload, shipload, carload]