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plural
- Plural of cartload
- 1902 (Jan 2), William C. Haddock, Annual Report of the Bureau of Street Cleaning for the Year 1901There were also 173,387 private alleys cleaned, from which streets, alleys and inlets there were removed *178,495 cartloads of dirt.
There were removed from buildings *639,833
cartloads of ashes and *30,472
cartloads of dry waste, and *252,238 cartloads of kitchen garbage, making a grand total of matter removed of *1,101,038
cartloads.
- 2010, Fei Wu, Suicide and Justice: A Chinese Perspective, page 162Wubo, a villager of Li village, wanted to use the wheat straw as firewood, and carried home several cartloads of it.
