Dictionary Entry

loads

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /ləʊdz/Used In Literature ↓

A burden; a weight to be carried.

In a Sentence

“I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. loadsloads heavyloads concentratedloads liveloads workloads applied

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Poetry examples for “loads”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Yonder, lightening other loads,
The seasons range the country roads,

And first a reaper from the field appears: 30
Sweating he walks, while loads of golden grain
O'ercharge the shoulders of the seeming swain:

For this with fillets strain'd your tender head,
And bravely bore the double loads of lead?
Gods! shall the ravisher display your hair,

O, Love, who art that fabled sun
Which all the world with bounty loads,
Without respect of realms, save one,

Much better than I hoped. How fate
Loads her with happiness and pride!
And such a loving lord, beside!

Much Heywood, Shirley, Ogleby there lay,
But loads of Shadwell almost chok'd the way.
Bilk'd stationers for yeoman stood prepar'd,

And disapproves that care, though wise in show,
That with superfluous burden loads the day,
And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

But other loads than this his own,
One man is not well made to bear.

Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore,

Between a splendid and a happy land.
Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore,
And shouting Folly hails them from her shore;