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English
Etymology
From barrow + load.
Noun
barrowload (plural barrowloads)
- The amount that fills a barrow.
1942, Emily Carr, “Grown Up”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:Thousands of men wheeled millions of barrowloads of earth and rocks for hundreds of weeks—dumping, loading till solid ground was made on which the C.P.R. could found their dream.
1959 March, D. Bertram, “An old friend - the 9.7”, in Trains Illustrated, page 139:[...] the 9.7 is routed into one of the other platforms to leave Platform No. 8 clear for the "Mail" and save the station staff a hurried transfer of a dozen or more barrowloads of mailbags.