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lade

  [leyd] verb, lad⋅ed, lad⋅en or lad⋅ed, lad⋅ing.
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–verb (used with object)
1. to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
2. to load oppressively; burden (used chiefly in the passive): laden with many responsibilities.
3. to fill or cover abundantly (used chiefly in the passive): trees laden with fruit; a man laden with honors.
4. to lift or throw in or out, as a fluid, with a ladle or other utensil.
–verb (used without object)
5. to take on a load.
6. to lade a liquid.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME laden, OE hladan to load, draw up (water); c. D laden, G laden, ON hlatha to load. Cf. ladle

Related forms:
lader, noun
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lade   (lād)   
v.   lad·ed, lad·en (lād'n) or lad·ed, lad·ing, lades

v.   tr.
    1. To load with or as if with cargo.
    2. To place (something) as a load for or as if for shipment.
  2. To burden or oppress; weigh down.
  3. To take up or remove (water) with a ladle or dipper.
v.   intr.
  1. To take on cargo.
  2. To ladle a liquid.

[Middle English laden, from Old English hladan.]
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Lade

Lade\, v. t. [imp. Laded; p. p. Laded, Laded; p. pr. & vb. n. Lading.] [AS. hladan to heap, load, draw (water); akin to D. & G. laden to load, OHG. hladan, ladan, Icel. hla?a, Sw. ladda, Dan. lade, Goth. afhlapan. Cf. Load, Ladle, Lathe for turning, Last a load.]

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

And they laded their asses with the corn. --Gen. xlii. 26.

2. To throw in out. 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.

3. (Plate Glass Manuf.) To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table.

Lade

Lade\, v. i. [See Lade, v. t.]

1. To draw water. [Obs.]

2. (Naut.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc.

Lade

Lade\, n. [Prov. E., a ditch or drain. Cf. Lode, Lead to conduct.]

1. The mouth of a river. [Obs.] --Bp. Gibson.

2. A passage for water; a ditch or drain. [Prov. Eng.]
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Language Translation for : Lade
Spanish: granero,
German: die Scheune,
Japanese: 納屋
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lade 
O.E. hladan (past tense hlod, pp. gehladen) "to load, heap" (the general Gmc. sense), also "to draw water" (a meaning peculiar to Eng.), from P.Gmc. *khlad- (cf. O.N. hlaða, O.Fris. hlada, O.H.G. hladen, Ger. laden), from PIE *klat- (cf. Lith. kloti "to spread," O.C.S. klado "to set, place"). Lading first attested c.1500. Laden (adj.) first recorded 1595, is from the original pp.
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