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Definition of "trainload" [trainload]

  • The number of occupants or the amount of material that a passenger or freight train can hold. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "trainload" in a sentence
  • "(Don Harpst of McCook, remembers a "trainload" of POWs who debarked from the train at Indianola late one wintry night in 1944."
  • "Issa has not discouraged articles suggesting he will send the administration subpoenas by the trainload."
  • "Gas a trainload of harmless and defenceless people?"