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One who loads; a oppressor.

s xiv. 8. This kept thousands in the town whose carcasses went into the great pits by cartloads. De Foe.

hip or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight. Cargoes of food or clothing. E. Everett.

carriage. Cart horse, a horse which draws a cart; a horse bred or used for drawing heavy loads. -- Cart load, or Cartload, as much as will fill or load a cart. In excavating and carting sand, gravel, earth, etc., one third of a cubic yard of the material before it is loosened is estimated to be a cart load. -- Cart…

The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers more or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum See Omentum. The caul serves for warming of the lower belly. Ray.

A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron.

he bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke.

A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.

good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer.

nother person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation. This horse load of citations and fathers. Milton.

To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper. The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow. Dryden.

kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.

ncerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces. J. Dennis To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift.

A self-loading or semi-automatic pistol with removable magazine in the handle holding seven cartridges. The recoil extracts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also Browning, and Colt-Browning, pistol.

Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote. However conducive to the good or our country. Addison.

The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels.

een or be overest, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail.

ts turning fluke down. Russell. Crossbar shot, a projectile which folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -- used in naval actions for cutting the enemy's rigging.

A form of tackle for loading a log sideways on a sled, skidway, etc.