head-load

noun

1. baggage or goods arranged so as to be carried on the heads of African porters

verb

1. tr to convey or carry (goods) on the head

Example Sentences

As one writer above says, it's "comforting to know that people who have been wounded, slaughtered and driven to refugee camps actually sneaked in illegally, to carry a head-load or pedal a rickshaw."

From Newsweek

It is odd that the only occasion on which Indians break from their walk into a run or a trot is when they are bearers at a funeral, or have an unusually heavy head-load, or carry a piano.

From Project Gutenberg