lade

verb

1. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).

   “Men from the fartheſt Equinoctiall line, Haue ſwarm’d in troopes into the Eaſterne India: Lading their ſhippe with golde and precious ſtones: And made their ſpoiles from all our prouinces.”

   “And they laded their asses with the corn.”

   “Under the sea-girt cliffs the shining ship was readied, laden with coats of mail, swords, and gleaming war harness.”

2. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
3. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).

   “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.”

4. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
5. To admit water by leakage.

noun

1. (Scotland)A load.
2. (UK, dialectal)The mouth of a river.

   “Every trickling tiny lade, every foaming brook, told its own story.”

3. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
4. (Scotland)(mill lade) A mill race.

   “It was also found that scouring had occurred in the bed of the mill lade, which passes between the first and second piers.”

5. (Scotland)Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.

name

1. A surname.
2. A coastal hamlet in Lydd parish, Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0820).
3. An ancient island off the coast of Miletus; now part of the mainland of Asia Minor.