[ noun ] the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car <noun.quantity> he imported wine by the boatload
Prince Andrew came home Wednesday following a six-month tour of duty on a Royal Navy destroyer that rescued a boatload of Vietnamese refugees, his commanding officer said.
Last summer, a boatload of 155 Tamils were smuggled from West Germany to Newfoundland under similar circumstances, and all were allowed to stay in Canada.
Mr. Sherlund adds, "I'm very optimistic looking out, because there's a boatload of new products shipping in the next quarter."
Cepeda said Leonel Panting, head of the regional government, assured Kisan it would receive part of a boatload of donations from Managua that arrived in Puerto Cabezas Oct. 12.
Battle-tested Japanese industrial managers here always buck up nervous newcomers with the tale of the first of their countrymen to visit Mexico, a boatload of samurai warriors blown ashore 375 years ago.