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Narrower term 4

Burthen 76% connected

See Burden.

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Millstone 76% connected

One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.

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Overburden 76% connected

To load with too great weight or too much care, etc.

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Overload 76% connected

To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.

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Broader term 6

Handling 76% connected

of Handle

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Merchandise 76% connected

The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.

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Product 76% connected

Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the product…

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Ratio 76% connected

The relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another of the same kind. It is expressed by the quotient of the division of the first by the sec…

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Ware 76% connected

Wore.

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Weight 76% connected

The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially wh…

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Laden 74% connected

Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Laden 74% connected

Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Load 74% connected

A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Load 74% connected

A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 7

Burden 92% connected

That which is borne or carried; a load.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cargo 92% connected

The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Consignment 92% connected

The act of consigning; consignation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Freight 92% connected

That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lading 92% connected

of Lade

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Load 92% connected

A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shipment 92% connected

The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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