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Definition of Backloads
1. backload [v] - See also: backload
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backloads
Literary usage of Backloads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1908)
"... reserving two backloads of keeping apples yearly and 200 good apples per
week.2 We occasionally come across evidence bearing on the destruction of the ..."
2. The Americans at home, or, Byeways, backwoods, and prairies. by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1854)
"Equally unregarded be the rainy day, when, mud to the knees and drenched to
the'skin, the steaming throng, slipping and plashing, drop their backloads, ..."
3. Beyond the Old Frontier: Adventures of Indian-fighters, Hunters, and Fur-traders by George Bird Grinnell (1913)
"These scouts had killed buffalo and brought in backloads of it. To travel with
horses for a dozen miles, through snow five or six feet deep and crusted, ..."
4. Sissano: Movements of Migration Within and Through Melanesia by William Churchill (1916)
"... and on the father's side begins the distribution of the cake and other articles
of food. Every name-giver gets from four to five backloads of eatables. ..."
5. The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India by Robert Montgomery Martin (1838)
"Very few of the ponies are used for the carriage of backloads, and those that
are not used in the chaises are kept for riding; but the people here have very ..."
6. Constraints on Kenya's Food and Beverage Exports by Michael Schluter (1984)
"Owing to the lack of possible backloads, it is unlikely that this constraint can
be lifted even in the medium term; most fruit and vegetables are relatively ..."
7. Investment and Input Requirements for Accelerating Food Production in Low by Peter Oram (1979)
"In addition, costs are high because of long distances, light loads, and lack of
backloads, dispersed populations, and poor maintenance. ..."
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