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Definition of Get a load
1. Verb. Look at with attention. "They get a load up the hill"; "Get a load of this pretty woman!"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Get A Load
Literary usage of Get a load
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Legal News by James Kirby (1883)
"But plaintiff says that there was a simulated bargain that Hétu should go to
Montreal on the polling day, pretending to get a load ..."
2. Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian by William Thomas Davis (1906)
"... him if he had sold his brig, and finding that he had not, he told him that he
would buy her if he would go in her to Puget Sound and get a load of ice. ..."
3. Hearings Before the Committee ...: March 4.--April 10, 1908 on Bills by United States, Congress, House (1908)
"It is not necessary to keep those trains waiting more than a part of one day to
get a load. It depends altogether on the nature of the commodity. ..."
4. Yorkshire Folk-talk: With Characteristics of Those who Speak it in the North by Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris (1892)
"Then he found an old pipe and blew into it, and game came from all four quarters
of the globe ; so he shot long enough to get a load. ..."
5. Annals of Iowa by Samuel Storrs Howe, Theodore Sutton Parvin, Frederick Lloyd, Sanford W. Huff, State Historical Society of Iowa, Charles Aldrich, Edgar Rubey Harlan, Iowa Historical Dept (1839)
"Helped M. Paine get a load of wood and a load of fodder, then he and I got a load
of wood for self. 10th. Went to store and got some ..."
6. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1860)
"... empty, a great times in a year, " Would it be worth the time of loading and
unloading to stop at the tannery and get a load of spent Kill.., ..."
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