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Cargo :: Cargo (n.) The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight..

Encumber :: Encumber (v. t.) To load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages..

Unload :: Unload (v. t.) To draw the charge from; as, to unload a gun..

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;

Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow..

Disburthen :: Disburthen (v. t.) To disburden; to relieve of a load.

Langret :: Langret (n.) A kind of loaded die.

Light :: Light (superl.) Not burdensome; easy to be lifted, borne, or carried by physical strength; as, a light burden, or load..

Loadstone :: Loadstone (n.) Alt. of Lodeston.

Fother :: Fother (n.) A wagonload; a load of any sort.

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight..

Rack :: Rack (a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads..

Straw :: Straw (n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw..

Demurrage :: Demurrage (n.) The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing..

Stuff :: Stuff (n.) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick..

Telpher :: Telpher (n.) A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.

Surfeit :: Surfeit (v. i.) To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess..

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil..

Thrack :: Thrack (v. t.) To load or burden; as, to thrack a man with property..

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..

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