Obs. Some kind of cart for carrying stones, bricks, lime, sand, and the like. Hence court-load. Cf. also COURTIER2.
1576. Act 18 Eliz., c. 10 § 4. Every person shall be charged to find … one Cart, Wain, Tumbrel, Dungpot or Court, Sleads, Cars, or Drays, furnished for … Repairing of the Highways [in Statutes of Irel. an. 12 Jas. I (Bolton, 432) printed ‘Tumbrell, Dung-pott or Courtslad’].
1577. Holinshed, Chron., IV. 858. Yet had they for their horsse, their court, and their driver but onelie twelve pence a daie.
1587. Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 1542/1. There were to be imploied fiue or six hundred courts about a wall of small bredth.
1703. T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 203–4. Workmen in Sussex tell me, that they commonly put 2 of their Court-loads (that is about 24 Bushels) of Sand to 1 Load … of Lime.
