Definition of "cartload"

Two days of skirmishing outside the town were followed by a bold sortie headed by a dervish; and, as the result of this affair, a cartload of heads was sent as trophies to Constantinople.

1854 Francis Rawdon Chesney - The Russo-Turkish Campaigns of 1828 and 1829

The youngster put some cartloads of food into his bag and set out again.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 101

. . although a little apt to get buried under a cartload of written pleadings, . .

1850, Edward Everett, The Mount Vernon Papers