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Definition of Armload
1. Noun. A quantity of things approaching the maximum that could be held or carried with one arm. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Armload
1. an armful [n -S] - See also: armful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Armload
Literary usage of Armload
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"He went into the kitchen and filled a bucket with soapy water and gathered up an
armload of rags from the rag bag. Methodically, he cleaned away the mud. ..."
2. The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story by William Dean Howells (1902)
"Every time he came back from looking he brought an armload of wood into the
kitchen so that his mother would not notice. The last time she said, "Why, ..."
3. Crusading with Knights Templar Under the Banners of Allegheny Commandery, No by David W. Semple (1879)
"Having spent a few hours thus at the Castle, buying armload after armload of the
genuine bogwood, sold at the Castle gate, we take our conveyances and ..."
4. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter (1909)
"Soon he saw Elnora, her flushed face beaming as she bent with an armload of twigs
and branches and talked to a kneeling man. ..."
5. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1922)
"Gifts of books by the armload began to pour in before March had even arrived.
The service rendered by the three large ..."
6. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1895)
"they had found ; each had an armload of something with stems or twigs, uncertain
which, hent and broken and hanging half way to the ground. ..."
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