A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
Our life's a load.
A person that spends all day online. The term was originally used in the late 1980s to describe users on free Q-Link (later America Online) accounts who never signed off the system at great expense to the company.
She never logs off; she is a real LOAD!
The sense of “burden” first arose in the 13th century as a secondary meaning of Middle English lode, loade, which had the main significance of “way, course, journey”, from Old English lād (“course, jo...
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The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.
To put a load on something.
The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.