英语词汇“waggon、load”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

waggon-load

释义

wagon-load, waggon-load
As much as a wagon can carry. (Often used hyperbolically.)
1721Cibber Refusal i. i, Well, how goes Mississippi, man? What, do they bring their money by waggon loads to market still?1728Young Love Fame i. 87 Imperious some a classic fame demand, For heaping up with a laborious hand, A waggon-load of meanings for one word.1801Farmer's Mag. Nov. 471 A waggon-load [of wheat] is 12 or 14 barrels; each barrel 196 lib. weight.1837Dickens Pickw. v, He wouldn't shy if he was to meet a vaggin-load of monkeys with their tails burnt off.1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 66 He carries with him..a waggonload of plate.1913J. G. Frazer Golden Bough vii. Balder I. iv. 118 The butchers were rewarded with a waggon-load of wine.

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