Wow, does this sound familiar …
Lithermon’s-load: A greater load than can well be carried at one time, but is nevertheless undertaken to save the trouble of another journey — a lazy man’s load. Old English lither, bad, wicked, has a secondary meaning of “lazy” in some of our early writers.
— Georgina Jackson’s Shropshire Word Book, 1879
(from Jeffrey Kacirk, Forgotten English page-a-day calendar, 25 Jul 2008)
I’m always very much into carrying everything in one load if at all possible, even if it means for a precarious burden. Maybe because I get so easily distracted at the other end. Or because I’m, indeed, lazy. I need to remember this word.
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