What does "lade" mean?
A load.
Lade
name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·1 syllable ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A load.
- Grammar: lade is listed as name, noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: bag, bail, barrel, bear hard upon.
- Useful contrasts: ease, empty, relief.
- Usage evidence: 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.
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Definitions
Noun
- 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
Verb
- 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.
Proper Noun
- 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
"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."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "lade"?
Common synonyms include: bag, bail, barrel, bear hard upon, bottle, box.
How do you use "lade" in a sentence?
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
Etymology 1
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”).
Etymology 2
From Middle English lad, from Old English lād, from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“a way, course”). Related to lode, lead (“to conduct”).
Etymology 3
* 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”).
Etymology 4
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λάδη (Ládē).