Sledgeful

Near-synonyms: sledload, sledful, sleighload, sleighful

And so we all sat down again, and stared at him and at each other in helpless, hopeless bewilderment, until suddenly a German of the company, an odd fellow full of crotchets, who had lumbered the expedition with a whole sledgeful of private baggage, sprang up, lighted a torch, and darted out of the cavern as though possessed with a new idea.

So they gathered and collected / First a large supply of birch-trees, / Pine-trees with their hundred needles, / Trees from which the pitch was oozing, / And of bark a thousand sledgefuls, / Ash-trees, long a hundred fathoms.

Horses with bells jangling on their bridles, which reminded her of Arthur, were pulling sledgefuls of tourists along the High Street.