headload

English

Etymology

From head +‎ load.

Noun

headload (plural headloads)

1. A load carried on the head.

   In India, we saw women carrying headloads of firewood.

   • 1958 June 17, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, New York, N.Y.: Astor-Honor, published 1959, →OCLC, part 1, page 129:

     That night he collected his most valuable belongings into head-loads.