What's the difference between boatload and carload?

Boatload


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Carload


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  • (1) One witness said four carloads of young African-Caribbean men had cruised down Dudley Road and suggested there had been no doubt what they were planning to loot.
  • (2) On 16 November, four carloads of them arrived at his parents' house while they were celebrating Eid and chased him up the stairs.
  • (3) After their release, late at night, they were ambushed on a remote road by two carloads of Klan members.
  • (4) A New York Times article the next year estimated that it attracted 30,000 daily carloads of shoppers who “stroll about and window-shop just as they do on Fifth Avenue in New York”.
  • (5) I know personally of at least two or three carloads going down from south Wales, but there could be more."
  • (6) A recent show by local grime collective Levelz, for example, saw them ask fans to bring tins of food to a show rather than paying a ticket price : they ended up with six carloads to take to their local food bank.
  • (7) But a simple fact about the street, and those around it, sheds light on the police mindset: one by one, carload by carload, year by year, decade by decade, in an inexorable, remorseless exodus, white faces, faces like theirs, have vanished.

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