Horseload

The pile of discarded clothing in the centre of the room grew steadily and what he kept made only half a horseload. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (1964)

Henceforth also they begin to sell, not by the quarter or load at the first (for marring the market) but by the bushel or two, or a horseload at the most, thereby to be seen to keep the cross, either for a show, or to make men eager to buy, and so, as they may have it for money, not to regard what they pay. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)

Henceforth also they begin to sell, not by the quarter or load at the first (for marring the market), but by the bushel or two, or a horseload at the most, thereby to be seen to keep the cross, either for a show, or to make men eager to buy, and so, as they may have it for money, not to regard what they pay. ❋ Unknown (1909)

It is not stated how much constituted a horseload. ❋ Walter Besant (1868)

When his father sent him with a horseload of goods to a neighbouring market, he sold both horse and goods, and offered the money to build a church. ❋ Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1865)

A party of these grim Puritans, toiling through the difficult woods, each with a horseload of iron armor to burden his footsteps, would sometimes draw near the sunny precincts of Merry Mount. ❋ Unknown (1837)