Definitions for shipload

shipload ship·load

Spelling: [ship-lohd]
IPA: /ˈʃɪpˌloʊd/

Shipload is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 383 anagrams from letters in shipload (adhilops).

Definitions for shipload

noun

  1. a full load for a ship.
  2. the cargo or load carried by a ship.

Origin of shipload

First recorded in 1630-40; ship1 + load

Examples for shipload

It must undoubtedly have cost at least a shipload of doubloons to build the castle.

The only novelty was that it was the first shipload of Africans brought to English-America.

I sailed this summer from Iceland with forty men and a shipload of goods.

One could buy a shipload of their goods or a few pesetas' worth.

Bristol doth every year send away a shipload at least of such.

A shipload of good wives were the best cargo England could send us.

To find a lump of gold, after he had brought to England a shipload of yellow sand!

A shipload can be bought of the natives for three cents apiece.

The sale of a shipload of these goods in that country is as rapid as it is lucrative.

Mr. Marks said yes; he could get Rossetti a shipload if he chose.

Word Value for shipload
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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