Something loads something [closed]

I read this line in a book:

The dried grass loads the wagon.

As far as I know it should be passive:

The dried grass is loaded the wagon.

I have never seen this structure that something loads something. Always the subject of this structure is a person:

David loads the wagon.

Can anybody tell me in the first quote what is the meaning of "to load"?

Solution 1:

load - ...18. to weigh down, burden, or oppress (often followed by down, with, on, etc.)

A definition of "load" is "to weigh down, burden, or oppress."

Just as I can say, "I weighed down the tarp with a bunch of rocks," I can also just as properly say, "A bunch of rocks weighed down the tarp." The verb's object, "a bunch of rocks," in the first sentence serves just as well as the subject of that same verb as we see in the second sentence.

Likewise, just as I can say, "I don't want to burden you with my problems," I can also just as properly say, "I don't want my problems to burden you." The object of "to burden" in the first sentence, "my problems," can just as well be the subject of that same verb as we see in the second sentence.

Finally, I can say, "We oppress minorities with systematized racism," but I can also properly say, "Systematized racism oppresses minorities." In this example as well, the object of the verb can also be the subject of the verb. And to be clear, these examples are not employing the passive voice. The passive voice of the first sentence would be, "Minorities are oppressed by us with systematized racism," and of the second sentence would be, "Minorities are oppressed by systematized racism."

In fact, according to definition 22, I could also properly say, "The wagon loads the dried grass."

Anyway, just as in the examples above, the verb "load" can be used such that just as I might say, "He loads the wagon with the dried grass," I can also properly say, "The dried grass loads the wagon," the passive voice of which would be, "The wagon is loaded by the dried grass," not "The dried grass is loaded the wagon."