Definitions for shiploads

shiploads ship·load

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

Shiploads is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 457 anagrams from letters in shiploads (adhilopss).

Definitions for shiploads

noun

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

Origin of shiploads

First recorded in 1630-40; ship1 + load

Examples for shiploads

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for shiploads
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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