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apron the paved strip at or bordering an airport, on which planes are parked, loaded, and maneuvered. [1/3 definitions]
bed the area behind the cab of a truck on which the truck's cargo is loaded. [1/10 definitions]
boot of a computer, to start up after an operating system has been loaded or after being provided with initial instructions (often fol. by "up") [1/10 definitions]
breechloader a gun that is loaded at the rear of the barrel. (Cf. muzzleloader.)
clip-fed of certain repeating firearms, loaded automatically from a cartridge clip.
dock1 a raised platform at which land vehicles, such as trucks or trains, can be loaded and unloaded. [1/8 definitions]
draft the depth of water a ship displaces when loaded (sometimes spelled "draught"). [1/18 definitions]
Gatling gun an early machine gun with a revolving cluster of barrels, each of which was automatically loaded and fired when the cluster was rotated.
heavy charged or loaded. [1/10 definitions]
heavy-laden heavily loaded, as a vehicle or pack animal. [1/2 definitions]
lade to be loaded, as with a burden (usu. used in passive). [1/6 definitions]
laden loaded with a great burden; weighted. [1/3 definitions]
landing a point where goods are loaded and passengers ascend or descend, as on or from a ship or airplane. [1/3 definitions]
musket a heavy, large-calibre gun with a long barrel, carried on the shoulder and loaded through the muzzle, used from the sixteenth century until the eighteenth.
muzzleloader a gun, such as a musket, that is loaded through the open end of the barrel.
Plimsoll mark one of a series of lines on the hull of a merchant ship that indicate the depth to which, under different, legally specified circumstances, it may be loaded.
ramp the paved area around the buildings of an airport where planes are landed and loaded or unloaded. [1/7 definitions]
station wagon an automobile with one or two rows of folding or removable seats behind that of the driver, and a cargo area behind the rearmost seat that can be loaded through a tailgate.
weighted loaded; burdened. [1/3 definitions]
wharf a structure built along a shore, and often into the water, at which boats can be docked and loaded or unloaded; pier; quay. [1/4 definitions]