(a) Draught. (b) Load, burden, lading.

Hence, cheap alone: Abundance of commodities, plenty, cheapness; opposed to dearth.

A lot of sixty pieces. (Used with reference to certain articles of merchandise originally imported from abroad.)

More generally (with of): a quantity, esp. of goods; a consignment; a batch; a lot. Also figurative. Obsolete.

An itemized account of the equal portions into which a ship's cargo has been divided, to be assigned to individual purchasers by lot. Also: division…

Chiefly North American. Originally: a package of furs or other goods weighing about ninety pounds (approx. 41 kg). Now historical.

A number of chests of tea, a lot or consignment.

A number of things or animals of the same kind, or associated in some way; a quantity or amount of something; a set, a group; spec. a batch or…

The cargo of a ship; a cargo as a whole; the whole lot (of a commodity). Phrase, to break bulk (see break, v. phrases 1).

a lot (of land or other commodity) constituted not by design, but as an incident of other operations.

a quantity of goods sufficient to fill a truck and sold at a lower rate than a smaller quantity.