Lade
name, noun, verb ·1 syllable ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A load. Scotland
- 2 The mouth of a river. UK, dialectal
"Every trickling tiny lade, every foaming brook, told its own story."
- 3 A passage for water; a ditch or drain. UK, dialectal, obsolete
- 4 (mill lade) A mill race. Scotland
"It was also found that scouring had occurred in the bed of the mill lade, which passes between the first and second piers."
- 5 Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills. Scotland
- 1 To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
"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."
- 2 fill or place a load on wordnet
- 3 To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
- 4 remove with or as if with a ladle wordnet
- 5 To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
"to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern"
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- 6 To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
- 7 To admit water by leakage.
- 1 A surname.
- 2 An ancient island off the coast of Miletus; now part of the mainland of Asia Minor.
- 3 A coastal hamlet in Lydd parish, Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0820).
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Middle English laden, from Old English hladan and Old English hleadan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”).
From Middle English lad, from Old English lād, from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“a way, course”). Related to lode, lead (“to conduct”).
* As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse hlaða (“to stack, pile”). * As a north German surname, variant of Ladwig, Ludwig. * Also as a German surname, from the archaic noun Lade (“chest”). * As an English surname, from Old English lad (“waterway”).
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λάδη (Ládē).
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