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▪ I. loader1|ˈləʊdə(r)|
Also 5–6 loder, 6 looder.
[f. load v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who loads (in various senses); a carrier (obs. or dial.); a man who stands on the top of a wagon, a haystack, etc., and arranges the hay or corn which is forked up.
1476Paston Lett. III. 153 It come home the same daye that I come owte, browght by Herry Berker, loder. 1568in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 325 Nether any looder, carye or recarye wth their loode horse or horses..any maner of corne. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1060/2 So were his loders more readie to aggrauate his burthen, than willing to ease him. 1619Dalton Country Just. xliv. (1630) 103 [To] punish the offences of..Badgers Loaders Poulters or other ministers for the King's Majestie. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 35 The one of the men is a loader, the other a forker, and the woman to rake after the waine. a1661Fuller Worthies, Cornw. (1662) i. 204 The French-man did it out of covetousness, that so two loaders might bring double grists to his Mill. a1722Lisle Husb. (1752) 217 It is good husbandry to have two pitchers to one loader in the field. 1848Thoreau Maine W. (1894) 58 According to Springer, the company consists of choppers, swampers,—who make roads,—barker and loader, teamster, and cook. 1880Lumberman's Gaz. 28 Jan., There are also ‘loaders’, who assist the teamsters in placing the logs on their sleds. 1880Bottrell Trad. Cornw. Ser. iii. 158 The ‘loader’ (miller's boy) having brought the grist to a farmhouse.
b. An attendant whose business it is to load guns for a man who is shooting game.
1869Pall Mall G. 1 Sept. 2 A quick man, with a good loader at his back, will not unfrequently get at least three barrels into a rise of birds. 1895G. W. Smalley Stud. Men 198 The killing was done not to his own gun, but to his own three guns, as he had two loaders.
c. (a) A loading-machine. (b) See quot. 1872–6.
1872–6Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. (ed. 3), Loader, an instrument used with S. B. siege howitzers to steady the shell in the passage down the bore. The fixed iron band which crosses the hollow hemisphere of the loader has a hole in it which embraces the fuze, and which on reaching the bottom of the bore can be easily disengaged. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Loader, a machine attached to a wagon, as a hay-loader or stone-loader. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl.
†2. App. a dicing term; a doublet. (In quots. fig.) Obs.
1693Dryden Juvenal vi. Argt. (1697) 114 Lust is the main Body of the Tree... Every Vice is a Loader; but that's a Ten. 1694― Love Triumphant iv. i, You will find but one bastard charged upon you: you see I was not for laying loaders.
3. A gun which is loaded in a particular way, always with qualification, e.g. breech-loader, muzzle-loader, single-loader. Applied similarly to other things, such as agricultural machinery (e.g. front-end loader), washing machines (e.g. front-loader), etc.; see also side-loader s.v. side n.1 27.
1858[see breech-loader]. 1868Rep. to Govt. U.S. Munitions War 31 When it is required to be used as a single-loader, and a full magazine held in reserve for a greater emergency. 1968Which? May 149/1 This [washing] machine is a top loader, but has a horizontal stainless steel drum. 1975Radio Times 22–28 Feb. 56/1 Fully automatic top-loader. Takes loads of 4 lbs., 7 lbs., or 10 lbs... 7 programme automatic front loader. Takes load of 9 lbs.
4. Special comb.: loader gate Coal-mining, a passage along which coal is conveyed away from a long-wall face.
1964A. Nelson Dict. Mining 258 Loadergate, a gate road equipped with a gate conveyor or a gate-end loader; the gate to which the face conveyors deliver their coal. 1973Times 3 May 4/1 Then I saw all the loader gate workmen running towards me. Someone shouted ‘run, water has broken in.’
Add:[1.] d. Computing. A program which controls the loading of other programs.
1959M. H. Wrubel Primer of Programming for Digital Computers viii. 193 A simple way to load a program is to punch the instructions, one to a card, in the form of ‘single-word loaders’. There are load cards containing not only information to be stored, but also a short program for moving it to an arbitrary location and provision for reading in the next card. 1966C. J. Sippl Computer Dict. & Handbk. 175/2 The loader alters all necessary addresses in the object program to allow loading at an address of main storage assigned by the control program. 1972Computer Jrnl. XV. 195/1 Binary code..requires packing up into words before it is supplied to the loader. 1980C. S. French Computer Sci. xxiv. 183 A loader will take a program written in machine code and in some suitable input form such as paper tape, and input the instruction from the paper tape into..specified storage locations. 1985Personal Computer World Feb. 162/2 A small implementation requirement is the inclusion of the SEG loader directive in definition modules.
▪ II. † ˈloader2 Obs.
[f. load n. + -er1.]
= load-horse.
1600N. Breton Pasquil's Passion ix. (Grosart) 26/1 The Sacke, That laide awry may breake the Loaders backe. |