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buttload
noun
A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons.
A large amount carried in a butt.
"We spent all day Sunday and picked up a buttload of pecans."
(by extension, mildly) Any large but unspecific amount.
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