Carful
the largest number or amount that a car can hold.
Historical Examples
We once took out a carful of supplies to 300 Belgian soldiers.
Golden Lads Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason
The afternoon advanced; carful after carful of tourists came down the dusty road, but none of them the ones we so eagerly awaited.
The Campfire Girls Go Motoring Hildegard G. Frey
Occasionally I have been taken for other women; but I never before had any one think that I was a carful.
Among the Humorists and After Dinner Speakers, Vol. I Various
I’m going to take a carful of bride roses around to the Champneys house and put ’em under old Chadwick Champneys’s portrait!
The Purple Heights Marie Conway Oemler
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