lade

• What is the use of more water being sent down the mill lade, if the water that does come in it all runs away at the bottom, and none of it goes over the wheel? —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• The sun of Wilkes's popularity had long gone down, and the people read his letter with indifference DISFRANCHISEMENT OF CRICKLADE, ETC A few days after the success of Wilkes an act was passed, by large majorities in both houses, for disfranchising many corrupt voters of the borough of Crick-lade, and extending the right of suffrage to the freeholders of the hundred. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
• Andt you have also been doing well of lade, as I am bleased to hear. —  The Great German Composers
• When only five years old, when walking in Raith grounds, the two children had run on before, and old Jeanie remembered they might come too near a dangerous mill-lade. —  Stories of Childhood
• 476, O., lade, H., a thong of leather, a shoe-latchet. —  Caxton's Book of Curtesye

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