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ˈhorse-load
A load for a horse; sometimes, a determinate weight: cf. load.
c1350in Eng. Gilds (1870) 358 Tonnes and barelles þt comeþ in carte, sholde custome a peny; an horselode an halpeny. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxiv. 153, cccm hors lade of corne and als many of ryess. 1483Cath. Angl. 189/2 An Horse lade, clitella. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Somme ou charge de charbon, a horse lode of coles. 1641Vicars Jehovah-Jireh 160 His Souldiers took horse⁓loads of Provision, Bisket, Meal and other necessaries. 1667Primatt City & C. Build. (1680) 6 Some [lead] Oare.. yeilding Thirty-six shillings..a Horse-load (which is nine dishes, as they compute, weighing about Four hundred and Fifty pound). 1700Tyrrell Hist. Eng. II. 997 A Horse-load of Corn was sold for Ten Shillings. 1776Pennant Zool. III. 63 If a Porpesse should be too big for a horse-load, allowance should be made to the purveyor.
b. loosely or fig. A large load or quantity.
c1500How Plowman learned Pater-Noster 116 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 213 They thought to longe that they abode, Yet eche of them had an hors-lode. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. Pref., They have..laid ye down their horseload of citations and fathers at your door. 1681Otway Soldier's Fort. i. i., A Horse-load of Diseases. 1837Hawthorne Twice-Told T. (1851) I. v. 75 Toiling through the difficult woods, each with a horseload of iron armor to burden his footsteps. |