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loader
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun loader has 2 senses
- loader(n = noun.person) dock worker, dock-walloper, docker, dockhand, dockworker, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore - a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port; Array is a kind of jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer
- loader(n = noun.person) Array - an attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game; Array is a kind of attendant, attender, tender
Derived forms verb load1, verb load4
Derived form verb load2
CIDE DICTIONARY
loader, n.
One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
loader, n.
1 a loading-machine.
2 (in comb.) a gun, machine, lorry, etc., loaded in a specified way (breech-loader).
3 an attendant who loads guns at a shoot.
1 a loading-machine.
2 (in comb.) a gun, machine, lorry, etc., loaded in a specified way (breech-loader).
3 an attendant who loads guns at a shoot.
Derivative
-loading adj. (in comb.) (in sense 2).
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