Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To load with or as if with cargo.
- v. To place (something) as a load for or as if for shipment.
- v. To burden or oppress; weigh down.
- v. To take up or remove (water) with a ladle or dipper.
- v. To take on cargo.
- v. To ladle a liquid.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To put a burden, load, or cargo on or in; load; charge: as, to lade a ship with cotton; to lade a horse with corn.
- Figuratively, to burden: oppress.
- To lift or throw in or out, as a fluid, with a ladle or other utensil: as, to lade water out of a tub or into a cistern.
- To admit (water).
- To draw water.
- n. A load; specifically, a bag of meal.
- n. A way; course. See lode.
- n. A watercourse; a channel for water; a ditch or drain; in Scotland, specifically, a mill-race, especially a headrace.
- n. The mouth of a river.
Wiktionary
- v. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
- v. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
- v. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
- n. UK, dialect, obsolete The mouth of a river.
- n. UK, dialect, obsolete A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
- n. Scotland Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.
- v. To throw in or out, with a ladle or dipper; to dip.
- v. (Plate Glass Manuf.) To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table.
- v. obsolete To draw water.
- v. (Naut.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc.
- n. obsolete The mouth of a river.
- n. Prov. Eng. A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
WordNet 3.0
- v. remove with or as if with a ladle
- v. fill or place a load on
Etymologies
- English dialect, a ditch or drain. Compare lode, lead to conduct. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English laden, from Old English hladan. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“To CANADA: Worry about your problems in Canada we can handle our own! lade”
“You know how prescriptivists are always on about how kids these days lade their speech with hedges like like or kinda or sorta?”
“What I can say from my time as an Assistant Crime Books Cooker was that IG is absolutely on the money with describing how we team and lade the figures so as to best fit the arbitrary targets foisted on us from on high.”
“Two days later, Machyn reported that "rod thrugh London my lade Elysabeth to Algatt, and so to the qwens grace her sester, with a M1. hors with a C. velvett cotes.”
“Some local and foreign paraglide also exhibited their skill by paragliding over Shundoor festival while some tourists were enjoying at Shundor lade consisting on thousands of Yards adjacent to polo ground.”
“He lade the foundations for the computer age with his paper, “On Computable Numbers” that led to the creation of the “Turing machine,” a thought process experiment that simulated the logic of a computer algorithm.”
“Mr. Altosinger hadded a kitteh menny yeers agoe–Smoky keptid meowlin tew goe inn oar owt, an fynallee lade awn teh trak ob teh slyder.”
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“And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; and take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. —”
“November 19, 2008 at 3:51 pm ai dunno… mebbe teh same reezin teh greedee old man killed teh goose whu lade golden eggs- kuz he wanted to see teh insyde werkins.”
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“Ai speshallee laike it wen ai lade fur wurk awreddy.”
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