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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;

Breechloader :: Breechloader (n.) A firearm which receives its load at the breech.

Caul :: Caul (n.) The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers more or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum. See Omentum..

Plimsoll''s Mark :: Plimsoll's mark () A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured..

Cumber :: Cumber (v. t.) 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..

Magnetite :: Magnetite (n.) An oxide of iron (Fe3O4) occurring in isometric crystals, also massive, of a black color and metallic luster. It is readily attracted by a magnet and sometimes possesses polarity, being then called loadstone. It is an important iron ore. Called also magnetic iron..

Load :: Load (v.) A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load..

Lodesman :: Lodesman (n.) Same as Loadsman.

Gibbet :: Gibbet (n.) The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib..

Wheelbarrow :: Wheelbarrow (n.) A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person..

Unburthen :: Unburthen (v. t.) To unburden; to unload.

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

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

Dirt :: Dirt (n.) Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt..

Magnetic :: Magnetic (n.) Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian..

Exonerate :: Exonerate (v. t.) To unload; to disburden; to discharge.

Steven :: Stevedore (n.) One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

Siderite :: Siderite (n.) Formerly, magnetic iron ore, or loadstone..

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

Bee Line :: Bee line () The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line..

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