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To throw off, as a burden; to unload.

To unburden; to unload.

To take from, or set free from, a cart; to unload.

To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif.

ubjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches and injuries; under the pains and penalties of the l…

Removed, as a burden; unloaded. P. Fletcher.

To loose the girdle or band of; to unbind; to unload. He ungirded his camels. Gen. xxiv. 32.

To take the load from; to take out the cargo of; as, to unlade a ship or a wagon. The venturous merchant . . . Shall here unlade him and depart no more. Dryden.

To remove the shot from, as from a shotted gun; to unload.

Showy; ostentatious. Load some vain church with old theatric state. Pope.

ation. [R.] Locke. I hardly believe he hath from elder times unknown the verticity of the loadstone. Sir T. Browne.

As much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a wagonload.

A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon the back of a beast; also, a leather tie; a short wagon rope. [Prov. Eng.]

float on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded. Water-line model (Shipbuilding), a model of a vessel formed of boards which are shaped according to…

A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.

pparatus for weighing; especially, platform scales arranged for weighing heavy bodies, as loaded wagons.

To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle. The arrows of satire, . . . weighted with sense. Coleridge.

The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.

To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood.

A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.