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verb

Lade v. t. (past laded; past part. laden; pres. part. lading)

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."

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."

(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)

To draw water. (Obs.)

(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

... did it!" declared Jimmie. "The paper says that about six o'clock Wednesday morning the Wanderer, a vessel laden with foodstuffs from Australia, was hailed by the crew of a submarine. They were permitted to take to the small boats and then the Wanderer was torpedoed, going down at once. The submarine was positively identified as the 'U-13.' Then the other paragraph says that at about eight o'clock ...

— Boy Scouts in the North Sea - The Mystery of a Sub • G. Harvey Ralphson

... then they go forth into life and bear fruit upward. While others are talking with their friends about the things of earth, they meet with God in the garden of graces, where the sweet spices flow out and the frankincense and myrrh scent the air, and there they become laden with a profusion of fruits and impregnated with a sweet odor, which they bear out into the world. They are like the tree planted by the rivers of water, whose leaf ...

— How to Live a Holy Life • C. E. Orr

... such care to keep the masters and seamen from danger when they came up, causing their corn to be bought off at any time they wanted a market (which, however, was very seldom), and causing the cornfactors[300] immediately to unlade and deliver the vessels laden with corn, that they had very little occasion to come out of their ships or vessels, the money being always carried on board to them, and put it into a pail of vinegar ...

— History of the Plague in London • Daniel Defoe

... superb place where we may partake of it," added his wife, indicating the invitingly cool-looking piazza of a large hotel, which was plentifully provided with tables and chairs, seemingly on purpose for just such hungry lunch-laden mortals ...

— Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... have false ideas about evanescent fashions—about the manners and conversation of beaux and duchesses; but it is serious that our sympathy with the perennial joys and struggles, the toil, the tragedy and the humor in the life of our more heavily laden fellow-men,—should be perverted, and turned towards a false object instead of the ...

— George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy • George Willis Cooke

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