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noun

Loading n.

The act of putting a load on or into.

A load; cargo; burden.

verb

Load v. t. (past & past part. loaded; pres. part. loading)

To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon. "I strive all in vain to load the cart." "I have loaden me with many spoils." "Those honors deep and broad, wherewith Your majesty loads our house."

To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine. (Cant)

To magnetize. (Obs.)

Loaded dice, dice with one side made heavier than the others, so that the number on the opposite side will come up oftenest.

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"Loading" Quotes from Famous Books

... echoing from the glass roof of the station; the ring of steel sounding through the hissing of steam, noise of laughter and talk, mingled with the dense dull sound of truck wheels, of footsteps, of luggage loading. ...

— Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands • Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson

... covered the mudbanks. The favourable moment was however lost, and by the fierce energy of the little old Spaniard the defenders of the fort were driven back to their guns. Jack pretended to be very busy loading his. He had managed to get in a shot during the confusion, and one of the blacks next rammed in the powder and put another shot in after it. "All right! now blaze away, my hearty!" he sang out. He had piled up a good quantity ...

— The Three Midshipmen • W.H.G. Kingston

... pride. Before night I started two deer in a brushy place, and they leaped high over the oak bushes in the most affrighted way. I brought my gun to my shoulder and fired at the bounding animal when in most plain sight. Loading then quickly, I hurried up the trail as fast as I could and soon came to my deer, dead, with a bullet hole in its head. I was really surprised myself, for I had fired so hastily at the almost flying animal that it was little more than a random shot. As the deer was not ...

— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly

... guns Courtin calls "pieces a la minute." The proper name should be "canon a la suedoise" or "canon a la minute." They were invented by the Swedes, who used 3-pounders with improved methods for loading and firing, so as to be able to fire as many as ten shots in a minute. The French adopted a 4-pounder gun of this kind in 1743. The above information was given me by Lieut.-Colonel Ottley Perry, on the authority ...

— Three Frenchmen in Bengal - The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 • S.C. Hill

... noticed that the coast-line is broken at frequent intervals by the mouths of small streams, and at the available points at the mouths of these streams saw-mills are placed. This continues up the coast, wherever a river-mouth offers the slightest shelter to vessels loading; for the redwood forests line the coast up to and beyond ...

— Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands • Charles Nordhoff

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