The amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car.

synonyms: boatload, carload.

Roget 31: greatness etc. adj.; magnitude; size etc. (dimensions) 192; multitude etc. (number) 102; immensity; enormity; infinity etc. 105; might, strength, intensity, fullness; importance etc. 642.    great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap etc. (assemblage) 72; stock etc. (store) 636; peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload^†, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance etc. (sufficiency) 639.    principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part; bulk, mass etc. (whole) 50.    ... show more

Roget 190: contents; cargo, lading, freight, shipment, load, bale, burden, jag; cartload^†, shipload; cup of, basket of, etc. (receptacle) 191 of; inside etc. 221; stuffing, ullage.    ... show more

Dutch: scheepsvracht, wagonlading