Definition of "lade"

lade¹

/leɪd/

verb
third-person singular simple present lades, present participle lading, simple past laded or (dated) lode, past participle laden or laded
1. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
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  Men from the fartheſt Equinoctiall line,Haue ſwarm’d in troopes into the Eaſterne India:Lading their ſhippe with golde and precious ſtones:And made their ſpoiles from all our prouinces.
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, (please specify the page)
  And they laded their asses with the corn.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 42:26
2. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
3. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
  Quotations
  And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, / Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way.
  c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
4. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
5. (nautical) To admit water by leakage.
noun
plural lades
1. (Scotland) A load.

lade²

/leɪd/

noun
plural lades
1. (UK, dialect, obsolete outside of place names) The mouth of a river.
  Quotations
  Every trickling tiny lade, every foaming brook, told its own story.
  1873, Henry Kingsley, Oakshott Castle
2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
3. (Scotland) (mill lade) A mill race.
  Quotations
  It was also found that scouring had occurred in the bed of the mill lade, which passes between the first and second piers.
  1950 January, “Re-Opening of the Eyemouth Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 11
4. (Scotland) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.

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