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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Lade

Lāde, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. LADED; p. p. LADED, LADEN; p. pr. & vb. n. LADING.] [A-S. & O. Sax. hladan, Goth. hlathan, Icel. hladha, Sw. ladde, Dan. lade, O. H. Ger. hladan, hlatan, N. H. Ger. & D. laden. Cf. LOAD.]

Sense 1. To load; to put on or in, as a burden or freight;—generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.

And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence. Gen. xlii. 26.

Sense 2. To throw in or out, as a fluid, with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, 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. Shak.

Lāde, v. i.

verbintransitive
  1. To draw water. [Obs.]
  2. (Naut.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, &c. Wright.

Lāde, n.

noun

n. [Prov. Eng. a drain or ditch; A-S. lād, lādu, from līðan, to go, sail. See LOAD.] [Obs.]

  1. The mouth of a river. Gibson.
  2. A passage for water; water-course.