wagon load

See also: wagon-load and wagonload

English

Noun

wagon load (plural wagon loads)

  1. Alternative form of wagonload.
    • 1902 April 30, “Hand-to-Hand Fight in a Tenderloin Raid: 62 Prisoners Taken by Capt. Sheehan in an Alleged Poolroom. […]”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 July 2025:
      As wagon load after wagon load of prisoners was taken away, a large crowd of shoppers along Fourteenth Street and Sixth Avenue stopped to watch them.
    • 1905 December 14, “‘Maizypop’ in London”, in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, volume XLIX, number 30, Seattle, Wash., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 3:
      “Maizypop” was first fed to the Londoners last spring when a New Yorker, who planned and executed the “invasion,” gave away a wagon load of it to the great crowd of pleasure-makers that gathers on Hampton Heath on Easter Monday—a bank holiday.
    • 2015 June 13, Randy Lewis, “Tom Russell to preview new cowboy opera on Saturday at McCabe's”, in Los Angeles Times‎[2], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 June 2015:
      The recording boasts a wagon load of country and Americana music luminaries including Guy Clark, Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Eliza Gilkyson, Dan Penn, Gretchen Peters, Ian Tyson, Jimmy LaFave and Augie Meyers, along with some cherry-picked vintage recordings that add the voices of Johnny Cash, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Lead Belly and Tex Ritter, Mexican norteno and mariachi groups, French Canadian songs and other colorful elements from U.S. border regions.
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