lade.
To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
Meaning & usage
To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern
To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
To admit water by leakage.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English laden, from Old English hladan and Old English hleadan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”).
A load.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English laden, from Old English hladan and Old English hleadan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”).
The mouth of a river.
A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
(mill lade) A mill race.
Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English lad, from Old English lād, from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“a way, course”). Related to lode, lead (“to conduct”).
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