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Load :: Load (v.) The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder..

Last :: Last (n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers;

Loadsman :: Loadsman (n.) Alt. of Lodesma.

Chassepot :: Chassepot (n.) A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun..

Breechblock :: Breechblock (n.) 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 It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired..

Burden :: Burden (v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes..

Shotted :: Shotted (a.) Loaded with shot.

Muzzle-loader :: Muzzle-loader (n.) A firearm which receives its charge through the muzzle, as distinguished from one which is loaded at the breech..

Incumbrance :: Incumbrance (n.) A burdensome and troublesome load; anything that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check..

Pack :: Pack (n.) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse..

Cranage :: Cranage (n.) The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels..

Tipcart :: Tipcart (n.) A cart so constructed that the body can be easily tipped, in order to dump the load..

Overload :: Overload (v. t.) To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.

Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo..

Lumper :: Lumper (n.) A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.

Unshot :: Unshot (v. t.) To remove the shot from, as from a shotted gun; to unload..

Krupp Gun :: Krupp gun () 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..

Haversack :: Haversack (n.) A gunner's case or bag used carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading.

Mitraille :: Mitraille (n.) Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.

Draught :: Draught (n.) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like..

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