lade
verb
- to put or place as a burden
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /leɪd/
name
Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek Λάδη (Ládē)bor. English Lade Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λάδη (Ládē).
- An ancient island off the coast of Miletus; now part of the mainland of Asia Minor.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English lad, from Old English lād, from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“a way, course”). Related to lode, lead (“to conduct”).
- The mouth of a river.
“Every trickling tiny lade, every foaming brook, told its own story.”
- A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
- (mill lade) A mill race.
“It was also found that scouring had occurred in the bed of the mill lade, which passes between the first and second piers.”
- Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
verb
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”).
- 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.”
“And they laded their asses with the corn.”
- To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
- To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
“to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern”
“And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, / Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way.”
- To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
- To admit water by leakage.