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Loaden

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To charge or burden with a load; to burden or freight dialectal, transitive

    "[…] so, this Distemper of theirs was a Provocation to the Lord to vomit them up: as a man that hath taken something, that loadens his stomach, is sick, until he vomit; […]"

  2. 2
    past participle of load archaic, form-of, participle, past

    "Eugenius discovered sitting loaden with many Irons, a Lampe burning by him; then enter Clowne with a piece of browne bread and a Carret roote."

  3. 3
    To load a gun or pistol dialectal, transitive

    "The drover dodged hastily, seeking the protection of the big egg-stove. "Hold on there!" he shouted. "Meb-be it's loadened.""

Etymology

Etymology 1

From load + -en (“to make like”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English *loden, lode, variant of laden, y-lade, from Old English hladen, ġehladen (“loaded, laden”), equivalent to load + -en (past participle ending). Doublet of laden.

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