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buttload

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Noun — (historical, English dialect) An old unit of volume equal to a cart-load called a butt, about 384 gallons.

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From butt + load. Butt in this context may be possibly one or both of: * butt (“large wooden cask”) (Etymology 3) * butt (“two-wheeled cart”) (Etymology 5) Alternatively, the term may either be a corruption of English boatload or have been influenced by that term (except for the specific, West Country dialect sense). A...

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