lade1
/leɪd
/verb (past participle laden /ˈleɪd(ə)n/) [with object] archaic
1Put cargo on board (a ship).Slyly, he let it be known that Elissa was working on his behalf and he put her in charge of lading the boats.
1.1Ship (goods) as cargo: the surplus products must be laden on board the vessels...
- Mahabir said he returned to India when the rice was shipped and brought back samples of what had been laded.
1.2 [no object] (Of a ship) take on cargo: vessels lade there
Origin
Old English hladan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German laden 'to load', also to ladle and perhaps to lathe.
Rhymes
lade2
/leɪd/noun Scottish
A channel constructed to carry the swift current of water that drives a mill wheel: a lade from off the Tarland Burn...
- It is a delightful small country house with cottage, paddock, and original mill lade, dating from about 1830.
- The photograph shows an islander standing in the lade that channels water from the adjacent burn into the waterwheel below.
- The mills embarked on a modernisation programme that included the building of a new hydro-electric scheme, widening of the lade, and a modern power plant.
Origin
Early 17th century (in the sense 'watercourse, mouth of a river'): probably a variation of lead1; perhaps confused with lade, the Scots and Northern form of lode.