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Laden   /lˈeɪdən/   Listen
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.



Laden  past part., adj.  Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart. "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity." "A ship laden with gold."






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"Laden" Quotes from Famous Books



... a good pace, without jolting, over the white road. A warm mist rose around us laden with the smell of vegetation, ripe corn, and clover from the overheated earth and the neighboring fields, which had drunk their full of sunlight. Now and again a breath of fresh air was blown to us from the mountains. As the darkness deepened the ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... wherever we are threatened, as we did this summer when we struck at Osama bin Laden's network of terror. The bombing of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania reminds us again of the risks faced every day by those who represent America to the world. So let's give them the support they need, the safest possible ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... saw the Thames covered with goods floating, all the barges and boats laden with what some had time and courage to save, as, on the other, the carts, etc., carrying out to the fields, which for many miles were strewed with movables of all sorts, and tents erecting to shelter ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 • Editor-In-Chief Rossiter Johnson

... "Besides a convoy coming from the shore With victual for this noble camp of thine Surprised was, and lost is all that store, Mules, horses, camels laden, corn and wine; Thy servants fought till they could fight no more, For all were slain or captives made in fine: The Arabian outlaws them assailed by night, When least they feared, and least they ...
— Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso

... stirs even in commonplaces, and the merest question is an endearment. You are quiet because your heart is over-full. You talk because it is pleasant, not because you have anything to say. You weary of terms that are already love-laden, and you go out into the highways and hedges, and gather up the rough, wild, wilful words, heavy with the hatreds of men, and fill them to the brim with honey-dew. All things great and small, grand or humble, you press into ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various


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