wainload

Updated: May 26, 2025

But this is a zeed-toime which shall have a harvest o' blood if my right hand can compass it. 'If you go to t' wars, Gaffer Swain, we'll look to your homestead, said the farmer who had spoken before. 'As to t' greenstuffs as this gentleman asks for he shall have not one wainload but three, if he will but gi' us half-an-hour to fill them up.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Micah Clarke: His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph,: Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734

Get you hence, Friar John! Art thou content that thirty thousand wainload of devils should get away with thee at this same very instant? If thou be, at my request do these three things.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3