headload

noun

headload

noun

Etymology From head + load.

1

A load carried on the head.

In India, we saw women carrying headloads of firewood.
That night he collected his most valuable belongings into head-loads.1958 June 17, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, New York, N.Y.: Astor-Honor, published 1959, →OCLC, part 1, page 129:

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