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Same as Wagonful.

In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.

To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Furnished or loaded with acorns.

e, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches. Language . . . affluent in expression. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. [Colloq.]

Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely. All athwart there came A post from Wales loaden with heavy news. Shak.

To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag. A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. Dryden.

A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. Macaulay.

n capable of firing a number, of shots simultaneously or successively without stopping to load. -- Battery wagon, a wagon employed to transport the tools and materials for repair of the carriages, etc., of the battery. -- In battery, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing.…

The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line. "A bee line for the brig." Kane.

a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.

A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein. Youatt.

A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.

The breech mechanism in breech-loading small arms and certain special guns, as automatic and machine guns; --used frequently in referring to the method by which the movable barrels of breech- loading shotguns are locked, unlocked, or rotated to loading position.

The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.

Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick. Weale.

bulk. Turbervile. Barrel bulk. See under Barrel. -- To break bulk (Naut.), to begin to unload or more the cargo. -- In bulk, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in separate packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape that any desired quantity may be taken or sold. -- Laden in bulk, Stowed in bulk, having the c…

That which is borne or carried; a load. Plants with goodly burden bowing. Shak.