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lade

/leɪd/

lade verb: to fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).

Verb

lade (third-person singular simple present lades, present participle lading, simple past laded, past participle laden or laded)

  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.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
    • And they laded their asses with the corn.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 42:26
  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.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  4. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
  5. To admit water by leakage.

Noun (1)

lade (plural lades)

  1. (Scotland) A load.

Noun (2)

lade (plural lades)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) The mouth of a river.
    • Every trickling tiny lade, every foaming brook, told its own story.1873, Henry Kingsley, Oakshott Castle
  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
  3. (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.1950 January, “Re-Opening of the Eyemouth Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 11
  4. (Scotland) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Lade

Lade

  1. A surname.
  2. A coastal hamlet in Lydd parish, Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0820).

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Lade

Lade

  1. An ancient island off the coast of Miletus; now part of the mainland of Asia Minor.

lade meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

lade in Tamil

சுமையேற்று

lade in Urdu

لادنا

lade in Malayalam

കപ്പലിൽ ചരക്കു കയറ്റുക, ഒരാളുടെ മേൽ കുറ്റം ചുമത്തുക, ഭാരം ഏറ്റുക

lade in Kannada

ಹೇರು, ತೋಡು, ಮೊಗೆ

Forms of lade

Verb
third-person singular presentlades
present participlelading
pastladed
past participleladen
past participleladed
Noun
plurallades

Origin of lade

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”).

From Middle English lad, from Old English lād, from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“a way, course”). Related to lode, lead (“to conduct”).

* As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse hlaða (“to stack, pile”). * As a north German surname, variant of Ladwig, Ludwig. * Also as a German surname, from the archaic noun Lade (“chest”). * As an English surname, from Old English lad (“waterway”).

Words formed from lade

Phrases with lade

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Questions about lade

What does lade mean?
Lade means to fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
What is lade in Tamil?
Lade in Tamil is சுமையேற்று. See Lade meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lade?
Lade can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lade?
Lade is pronounced /leɪd/ (UK).
What is the past tense of lade?
The past tense of lade is laded.

Words near lade in the dictionary

  1. laddoos
  2. Ladds
  3. laddu
  4. laddus
  5. laddy
  6. lade
  7. Lade Vale
  8. laded
  9. lademan
  10. lademen
  11. laden

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lade (page history and authors); Lade (page history and authors); lade (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lade (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lade (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lade (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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