Lade

Quick meaning: Lade is a verb meaning To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).

Meaning

To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).

More Meanings

1. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
2. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
3. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
4. (nautical) To admit water by leakage.
5. (Scotland) A load.
6. (UK, dialect, obsolete outside of place names) The mouth of a river.
7. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.

Example Sentences

And they laded their asses with the corn.

to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern

Every trickling tiny lade, every foaming brook, told its own story.

And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, / Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way.

Word Forms

• lades
• lading
• laded
• laden

Synonyms for lade

Depending on context, synonyms include load, laden, ladle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include load, ladle, stow, bail, loaden, beload.

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