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pay-load|ˈpeɪləʊd|
[f. pay- + load n.]
a. The part of an aircraft's load from which revenue is derived; the passengers, mail, or cargo carried by an aircraft.
1930Times 12 Nov. 11/4 Her [sc. a flying-boat's] range is determined by the amount of ‘pay’ load she has to carry. 1933Discovery Dec. 367/2 There is no reason why the pay load should not be decreased to give an increased range but it could not carry a paying load for 2,000 miles. 1936Economist 25 Apr. 190/1 From the operational aspect, the key factor of seasonal pay-loads is still present, and this must necessarily limit the prospects of large profits. 1946R. A. McFarland Human Factors Air Transport Design x. 406 It is often contended that extra crew members replace passengers and payload. 1951‘N. Shute’ Round Bend 145 They pulled out a revised crew accommodation..and added a hundred and ten pounds to the payload. 1955Sci. Amer. Jan. 38/2 Helicopter designers are now busily engaged in harnessing jet engines to helicopters to raise their speed, range and payload. 1970H. A. Taylor Airspeed Aircraft since 1931 170 It is practicable to use short, lightweight loading ramps which can be carried in the aircraft with a minimum loss of space and payload. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 685/1 The benefits of such scaling will be greatest on aircraft having the lowest percentages by weight of payload.
b. The bombs, warhead, etc., carried by an aircraft or rocket; the instruments, equipment, manned capsule, etc., carried by a rocket.
1936Sky Nov. 7/3 Let the littlest and middlesize rocket serve as the ‘payload’ of the biggest rocket. 1941D. Garnet War in Air ii. 12 The British Bomber..could carry less petrol and more bombs, that is to say a higher ‘pay-load’ of bombs than the German Bomber. 1946J. P. Baxter Scientists Against Time ii. 35 Allied scientists and intelligence officers racked their brains to determine what would be the pay load in these long-range missiles. 1955Times 6 Aug. 6/1 The payload would be instruments capable of recording conditions outside the atmosphere and a telemetering apparatus to transmit findings to base. 1962F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics iv. 121 Sounding rockets..with 50-lb payloads designed to analyze the results of these atomic explosions. 1970New Scientist 8 Oct. 77/3 The proposed payload of the US space shuttle has come down some 50 per cent in the last three months. 1974Globe & Mail (Toronto) 22 Oct. 7/1 In 1972, former President Richard Nixon..promised that NASA would launch all foreign payloads intended for peaceful purposes under basically the same conditions that apply in the United States.
c. Goods, etc., carried on a road vehicle. Also transf. and fig.
1938Nation (N.Y.) 13 Aug. 144/1 The trucks have to carry all their own gas, oil, and water..which does not leave much room for pay load. 1960E. L. Cornwell Commercial Road Vehicles ix. 250 The articulated vehicle, weight for weight, generally has a rather lower payload capacity than a rigid vehicle. 1967G. F. Fiennes I tried to run a Railway vii. 84 We have the pay load of some 500 tons transferred between road and rail by some six men. 1968D. Braithwaite Fairground Archit. 88 But the electric ‘Scenic’..constituted the heaviest pay load ever and often required the attendance of two traction engines. 1971M. Tak Truck Talk 115 Pay load, the cargo or freight that a trucker hauls. 1971C. Bonington Annapurna South Face vii. 85 Another factor one had to reckon with was that people moving back up the mountain, as opposed to ferrying, could carry only a very limited pay⁓load of supplies, if any, since they would be carrying their own personal equipment. 1976P. R. White Planning for Public Transport x. 215 Although offering similar weight : payload characteristics as does an internal combustion engine and its fuel tank, such a ‘fuel’ would require large amounts of energy for its creation. 1978J. B. Hilton Some run Crooked xiii. 132 Once the water⁓table overflows, there are gullies adding their pay-load from both sides.
So Payloader, pay-, the proprietary name of a type of heavy mobile machine used for lifting and loading.
1953Sun (Baltimore) 12 Oct. 14/5 The Coast Guard informed Rukert Terminals Corporation that pay loaders could not be used in the bottom of the holds to remove the fertilizer because of possible fire hazard. The loaders are scoops operated by gasoline. 1957Muck Shifter June 340/1 (heading) ‘Four-in-one’ attachment. The entire line of four-wheel-drive Hough ‘Payloader’ tractor-shovels will now offer Drott ‘4-in-1’ buckets as optional equipment. 1959Trade Marks Jrnl. 27 May 548/1 Payloader... Lifting, loading and mechanical handling machines and mechanisms and parts of all these goods..The Frank G. Hough Co. Libertyville, State of Illinois, United States of America; manufacturers. 1963T. Pynchon V. xii. 347 Someday there would be cranes, dump trucks, payloaders, bulldozers to come and level the neighbourhood. 1965Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 10 Nov. 1/6 A man was killed at Mica Creek power station yesterday when a payloader he was driving overturned. 1969Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 267/1 The ancillary equipment is composed of..two 1.8 cu m payloaders, one 25 ton side-loader and several heavy-duty fork-lifts. 1977G. A. Browne Slide xxii. 180 A heavy-duty ditch digger..called a payloader because of its combination digging-conveying system. |