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Lade   /leɪd/   Listen
noun
Lade  n.  
1.
The mouth of a river. (Obs.)
2.
A passage for water; a ditch or drain. (Prov. Eng.)



verb
Lade  v. t.  (past laded; past part. laden; pres. part. lading)  
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."
2.
To throw in or 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."
3.
(Plate Glass Manuf.) To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table.



Lade  v. i.  (past laded; past part. laden; pres. part. lading)  
1.
To draw water. (Obs.)
2.
(Naut.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc.






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"Lade" Quotes from Famous Books



... hunting camps in the course of the day one of them contained two large lodges which were fortifyed with old driftwood and fallen timber; this fortification consisted of a circular fence of timber lade horizontally laping on and over laying each other to the hight of 5 feet. these pounds are sometimes built from 20 to 30 feet in diameter and covered over with the trunks and limbs of old timber. the usual construction of the lodges we have ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

... do but dream on sovereignty, Like one that stands upon a promontory, And spies a far-off shore where he would tread, Wishing his foot were equal with his eye, And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way. So do I wish the crown, being so far off, And so I chide the means that keeps me from it; And so I say I'll cut the causes off, Flattering me with impossibilities.— My eye's too quick, my heart o'erweens too much, Unless my hand and ...
— King Henry VI, Third Part • William Shakespeare [Rolfe edition]

... to the commerce of the colonies, which ordained "That none in any of the ports of the plantations of Virginia, Bermuda, Barbados, and other places of America, shall suffer any ship or vessel to lade any goods of the growth of the plantations and carry them to foreign ports except in English bottoms," under forfeiture of certain exemptions from customs.[F] It was followed up four years later (1650) under the Commonwealth, by an act prohibiting ...
— Manual of Ship Subsidies • Edwin M. Bacon

... Countrey are, Elephants, Hony, Butter, Milk, Wax, Cows, wild Cattel: of the three last great abundance. As for Corn it is more scarce than in the Chingulays Countrey; neither have they any Cotton. But they come up into Neure Caulava yearly with great droves of Cattel, and lade both Corn and Cotton. And to buy these they bring up Cloth made of the same Cotton, which they can make better than the Chingulays; also they bring Salt and Salt Fish, and brass Basons, and other Commodities, ...
— An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies • Robert Knox

... to be used in that voyage and despatch, they always excuse themselves for the late sailing of the ships by the risk of vendavals, as the violence of the weather is an unavoidable difficulty. We have also written to you that the only cause of the delay is the waiting to lade those ships with the commerce of Manila—which are detained for personal ends, by awaiting the merchandise from Japon, China, and the Orient. That is poor management; and the welfare of private persons must not have more force than that of the public. For the customs ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 • Emma Helen Blair


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