shipload

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• One shipload is equivalent to 40 to 50 lorry loads.
• In Norfolk, Virginia, a whole shipload of watching sailors let out a gang-whoop of recognition.
• The government even refused entry to a shipload of desperate Jews, who instead sailed back to Europe on a voyage of the damned.
• Meg had tell'd him Sandy was a tattie merchant, an 'he'd been thinkin' Sandy had a big wey o 'doin', an 'sell'd tatties in shiploads an' so on. My Man Sandy
• Marble was delivered there by the shipload, cut, and redistributed.
• In 1507, a year after seizing power, Afonso sent to Portugal a shipload of copper and ivory.
• Benares was famous for these things -- or did they simply come by the shipload from Birmingham to be sold here? TANK OF SERPENTS
• When shiploads of contraband disembarked at Mississippi River towns, they were often outnumbered by the employers who anxiously awaited them.
• The rulers of the British Empire fell for the sweet talk and sent the first shipload of British convicts to the Cape.
• While sippers and connoisseurs of every stripe debate whether Australia is the new California or Michigan, shiploads of the stuff is selling, especially in the States.