Synonyms:
load, loading, burden
Meaning: weight to be borne or conveyed
Synonyms:
load, loading
Meaning: a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time; "the system broke down under excessive loads"
Usage examples
"I think you're loading me,"
Negroes were at work on the wharf loading bales of cotton on a big ship.
The trained elephant does the work of twenty men piling logs, loading ships, or carrying burdens.
John Hays was one of the cannoneers of Greene's artillery and he worked all day loading and firing his piece.
So the people chose three men who could be trusted, and, loading them with money, sent them to Rome, bidding them to pretend that they were diviners of dreams.
Philip, evidently giving some directions to the negroes who were loading trunks and boxes into a cart, rode down the driveway just as Grace and Sylvia reached the entrance.
Some persons carry a piece of grease with them, when shooting in wet weather, and with it they smear the top of the nipple after each loading, before putting on the fresh cap.
The grain-elevator system is only the beginning of a revolution in this department which will not end until the loading and unloading of ships have become almost entirely the work of machinery.
Bullets, to carry.--Bullets should be carried sewn up in their patches, for the convenience of loading, and they should not fit too tight: a few may be carried bare, for the sake of rapid loading.
"One of the lower-deck loading ports could be left unlocked, by carelessness, and he could blunder overboard at about five thousand feet." He watched Harrington make a deceptively pointless-looking move.