horseload

The pile of discarded clothing in the centre of the room grew steadily and what he kept made only half a horseload.

When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

Henceforth also they begin to sell, not by the quarter or load at the first (for marring the market) but by the bushel or two, or a horseload at the most, thereby to be seen to keep the cross, either for a show, or to make men eager to buy, and so, as they may have it for money, not to regard what they pay.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

Henceforth also they begin to sell, not by the quarter or load at the first (for marring the market), but by the bushel or two, or a horseload at the most, thereby to be seen to keep the cross, either for a show, or to make men eager to buy, and so, as they may have it for money, not to regard what they pay.

Of Fairs and Markets. Chapter IV. [1577, Book II., Chapter 2; 1587, Book II., Chapter 18 1909

It is not stated how much constituted a horseload.

The History of London Walter Besant 1868

When his father sent him with a horseload of goods to a neighbouring market, he sold both horse and goods, and offered the money to build a church.

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865

A party of these grim Puritans, toiling through the difficult woods, each with a horseload of iron armor to burden his footsteps, would sometimes draw near the sunny precincts of Merry Mount.

The May-Pole of Merry Mount 1837