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• n  the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car

• Last week British-owned ore mines near Bilbao (now Rightist) had taken from them the first shipload of ore dispatched to Adolf Hitler.
• The first shipload of De Loreans is due to arrive next week at Long Beach, Calif.
• Bustling back to his Red Sea domain with a shipload of wives and concubines, the Sword of Islam flashed commandingly.

• boatload
• carload

News & Articles

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• Georgia's President and Prime Minister War on US Warship
  A warship carrying a shipload of grinning, hand-shaking US navy officials sailed into the Georgian port of Poti on August 11 and hosted a round of squabbling by the country’s two rivaling leaders, Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili and President Mikheil Saakashvili. As the US commanders raised glasses of wine to peace and security in Georgia, the two top Georgians on board made anything but ...
  Aug. 12, 2013 - EurasiaNet

Quotes

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• Dr Benjamin Spock in Media Life Magazine
  We should perhaps remember what "Star Trek's" Dr. Spock told us years ago: "Nowhere am I so desperately needed as among a shipload of illogical humans."
• John Kerry in Malaysia Star
  The administration has been asleep at the switch while shipload after shipload of cargo goes uninspected,Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts said.
• James Blunt in Entertainment Weekly
  The two edgiest tracks even pack some contempt, starting with the self-loathing "Give Me Some Love," in which Blunt tells us he's "taken a shipload of drugs" to blot out his identity.