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Freight; loading; cargo. [Obs.] Shak.

A gunner's case or bag used carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading.

A fork for pitching and tedding hay. Horse hayfork, a contrivance for unloading hay from the cart and depositing it in the loft, or on a mow, by horse power.

The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.

. A breech-loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp, at Essen in Prussia. Guns of over eight-inch bore are made up of several concentric cylinders; those of a smaller size are forged solid. Knight.

The act of loading.

; to reduce in weight; to relieve of part of a load or burden; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden.

A large boat or barge, mainly, used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery. Lighter screw (Mach.), a screw for adjusting the distance between the stones in a grinding mill by raising or lowering the bridgetree.

The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.

One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun.

One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.

A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading.

a gunner's mate; one of the soldiers in a train of artillery, who assisted the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns. [Obs.]

Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.

A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.

The act of loading. [Obs.]

-- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.

the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels. [Written also key.]

caup. (b) The redhead. -- Raft port (Naut.), a large, square port in a vessel's side for loading or unloading timber or other bulky articles; a timber or lumber port.

The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.