headload
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editheadload (plural headloads)
- A load carried on the head.
- In India, we saw women carrying headloads of firewood.
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, New York: Astor-Honor, published 1959, page 129:
- That night he collected his most valuable belongings into head-loads.