2. Verb. (transport) To load (cargo, shipment, etc.) after unloading has been completed. ¹
3. Verb. To fill a syringe with solution from the plunger end of the barrel ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Backload
1. to defer a financial obligation [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backload
Literary usage of Backload
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1858)
"Fortunately, during the day an Indian arrived with a backload, and the bridle
was completed. The headstall we bought of a saddler, and the reins, ..."
2. Howard Pyle: A Record of His Illustrations and Writings by Willard Samuel Morse, Gertrude Brincklé (1921)
"... and Bush, the big house dog, sitting beside him" w 4.1 x 4.3 6 "Grandfather
came in with a backload of sleds" w 6.6 x 4.8 7 "He crawled forward, ..."
3. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs by George Sewall Boutwell (1902)
"man, who after a visit would stop at the pile of wood, near the house, and carry
a backload to his home. My father often saw the stealing, but the culprit ..."
4. Railroads: Rates and Regulation by William Zebina Ripley (1912)
"... and then brought East, like the Oregon lumber, cheaply, as a backload to
counterbalance westbound shipments of gram and manufactures. ..."
5. Railroad Traffic and Rates by Emory Richard Johnson, Grover Gerhardt Huebner (1911)
"In consequence, the trains that now take the products of the central west to the
Atlantic and Pacific return with a profitable " backload "; and though this ..."
6. Prosecutorial Response to Heavy Drug Caseloads: Comprehensive Problem by Kerry M. Healey (1994)
"... allowed the courts to process more cases while insisting on some jail time
for drug offenders and reducing the court's case backload by half. ..."
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