traction load

British  

noun

1. geology the solid material that is carried along the bed of a river

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Example Sentences

The traction load was taken at 20 per cent. of the live load, and a wind pressure of 500 pounds per lineal foot was assumed over the whole structure.

From The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment by Anonymous

After that we had to unload a traction load of coal in one-cwt. sacks, and oh, they were dirty and awkward too.

From One Young Man The simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the western front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to his desk. by Hodder-Williams, J. E. (John Ernest)