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To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble. Why asks he what avails him not in fight, And would but cumber and retard his flight Dryden. Martha was cumbered about muc…

Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.

The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load.

e detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing.

To unload; to disburden. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. Copland.

tion of the derrick and the crane, having facility for hoisting and also for swinging the load horizontally.

A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.

dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt. Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Is. lvii. 20.

To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve. He did it to disburden a conscience. Feltham. My mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened. Hammond.

To disburden; to relieve of a load. [Archaic]

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

Wet dock, a dock where the water is shut in, and kept at a given level, to facilitate the loading and unloading of ships; -- also sometimes used as a place of safety; a basin.

To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder.

Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.

The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like. A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement. Sir W. Temple.

in armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She has a displacement of 17,900 tons at load draft, and a speed of 21 knots per hour.

To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc. [U.S.] Bartlett. Dumping car or cart, a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also dump car, or dump cart.

The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.

iritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise. This earthly load Of death, called life. Milton. Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. Phil. iii. 19.