wagonfulwaggonfuln.
/ˈwaɡ(ə)nfʊl/, U.S. /ˈwæɡənˌfʊl/ As many persons, or as much baggage, etc. as will fill a wagon.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > a load as a quantity > cart- or wagon-load
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1846 C. Dickens Pictures from Italy 179 A waggon-full of madmen, screaming and tearing to the life.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 121 Hanson arrived, with a waggonful of our effects.
1902 O. Wister Virginian xviii. 220 The wagonful of guests whom he had evidently been driving upon a day's excursion.
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