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buttload.

A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons.

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Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons.

    UK · West-Country · obsolete
  2. A large amount carried in a butt.

    New-England · Southern-US · UK · dated
    We spent all day Sunday and picked up a buttload of pecans.
  3. Any large but unspecific amount.

    broadly · mildly · slang · vulgar
Where this word comes from

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). All senses above also synchronically reanalyzed as buttocksful.

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