Talk:buttload
Latest comment: 7 years ago by AdamBMorgan in topic Volume or mass
Wiktionary:Requests for deletion - kept[edit]
Kept. See archived discussion of 11 2007. 20:58, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Boatload[edit]
I'm pretty sure this has some relation to "boatload" they are too similar in pronunciation for this to have been a coincidence.
- The same similarity is in e.g. coatable and cuttable, which are unrelated. Equinox ◑ 10:34, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Volume or mass[edit]
There may be an actual measurement but I'm not sure how to integrate these: The English Dialect Dictionary (1898) describes a butt-load as a cart load about 18 hundredweight (ie. about 914 kg). Meanwhile, The Rural Economy of the West of England (1796) describes a butt load as about six seams (ie. about 48 bushels or 1745 litres), which is repeated in The Dictionary of Trade Products (1858). - AdamBMorgan (talk) 18:53, 7 September 2016 (UTC)