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▪ I. reˈload, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To make up again as a load; to furnish with a fresh load, etc.
1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 18 July 1776, Two men would re-load three loads a day. 1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 260/1 [The engine] is thereby prepared for moving the train back again when reloaded. 1872Daily News 1 Aug., The Belgic coal..is perhaps too friable for reloading and despatch by railway. 1884Manch. Exam. 7 Oct. 5/6 Alexandria complains it cannot get trains returned to reload.
2. a. absol. To put in a fresh gun-charge.
1784Cook's 3rd Voy. vi. v. II. 306 It is impossible for them to reload, as the animal is seldom at more than twelve or fifteen yards distance, when he is fired at. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. 126 In an instant his rifle was levelled and discharged... While he was reloading, he called to Campbell. 1895Scully Kafir Stories 147 He reloaded with some [cartridges] which Langley passed over to him.
b. To load (a fire-arm or cartridge) again. Also, to load (a camera, cassette, etc.) again.
1853Reade Chr. Johnstone 270 Marechal, reload Mr. Gatty's pistol. 1874J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl i. 19 The chief superiority of the breech-loader lies in its capability of being so quickly reloaded. 1888Judge Christmas Number 43/1 One Hundred Exposures may be made without ‘re-loading’ the camera. 1892Greener Breech-Loader 176 Cartridge-cases do not pay to reload; it is false economy in England to reload paper cases. 1897Sears, Roebuck Catal. 473/3 The camera..can be reloaded..[in] any place from which the light is excluded. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 713/2 Reload, to remove exposed film and insert unexposed film in a camera or magazine in a dark-room or under light-tight conditions (e.g. in a changing bag). 1977J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 45 Instead of buying 35 mm film in cassettes you can purchase a bulk length..and then keep reloading cassettes yourself.
Hence reˈloaded ppl. a.; reˈloading vbl. n. (also attrib.).
1822Regul. & Ord. Army (1844) 51 A Salute that may require the reloading of the guns. 1874J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl i. 20 The providing or reloading of a sufficient number of metallic shells. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 750/1 Reloading Tools, for reloading spent capsules of breech-loading fire-arms. 1892Greener Breech-Loader 157 Use the very best cartridges.., and by no means employ reloaded cases.
▪ II. reload, n.|ˈriːləʊd|
[f. the vb.]
That which serves to reload anything, as a film placed in a camera, etc.
1928Daily Express 14 Dec. 14/6 (Advt.), He can use the 10d... Shaving Stick as a reload. 1958Newnes Compl. Amat. Photogr. 75, 35 mm. film is also supplied as daylight-loading or darkroom-loading reloads for cassettes. 1961Guardian 16 Mar. 6 He found..a small Minox pocket camera..and, in a brown paper bag, two Minox reloads. 1976Shooting Mag. Dec. 47/2 Despite the budget price it does not make second-quality reloads. 1977J. Wainwright Nest of Rats i. vii. 46 A shooter; a thirty-eight Colt ‘Agent’ revolver... There was a box of re-loads included in the parcel. |