mountain-load
mountain-load is the alternative form of mountainload.
Meaning of mountainload
Noun
mountainload (plural mountainloads)
- An excessive amount.
- It puts strange thoughts into one's head about the mountain-load of government under which people exist in Europe, and suggests the idea that we may be over-governed. Think of the hundred Acts of Parliament annually enacted to prevent us, the people of England, from cutting each other's throats, or...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 215
Forms of mountain-load
| plural | mountain-loads |
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Questions about mountain-load
- What is mountain-load the alternative form of?
- Mountain-load is the alternative form of mountainload.
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