LADE • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Lade

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/leɪd/ Listen

noun

Lade n.

The mouth of a river. (Obs.)

A passage for water; a ditch or drain. (Prov. Eng.)

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.

See images of 'Lade'

Etymology of 'Lade'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Lade" Quotes from Famous Books

... where he got such funny lookin' parents fr'm, has thim to blame that brought him into th' wurruld if he dayvilops into a sicond story man befure he's twinty-wan an' is took up be th' polis. Why don't you lade Packy down to th' occylist an' have him fitted with a pair iv eyeglasses? Why don't ye put goloshes on him, give him a blue umbrelly an' call him a doctor at wanst an' be done ...

— Mr. Dooley's Philosophy • Finley Peter Dunne

... "That's Sir John Lade," said my uncle, "one of the richest men and best whips in England. There isn't a professional on the road that can handle either his tongue or his ribbons better; but his wife, Lady Letty, is his match with ...

— Rodney Stone • Arthur Conan Doyle

... woman who was going over the water with us, the boatman, his helper, and ourselves—should stir but a few inches, leaning to one side or the other, the boat would be full in an instant, and we at the bottom; besides, it was very leaky, and the woman was employed to lade out the water continually. It appeared that this crazy vessel was not the man's own, and that his was lying in a bay at a little distance. He said he would take us to it as fast as possible, but I was so much frightened I would gladly have given up the whole day's journey; indeed not ...

— Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 • Dorothy Wordsworth

... 'Lade on, I'm after ye!' roared the Irish skeleton. Pete, finding the door locked gave it a tremendous kick, and it burst open with a ...

— City Crimes - or Life in New York and Boston • Greenhorn

... several old Indian hunting camps in the course of the day one of them contained two large lodges which were fortifyed with old driftwood and fallen timber; this fortification consisted of a circular fence of timber lade horizontally laping on and over laying each other to the hight of 5 feet. these pounds are sometimes built from 20 to 30 feet in diameter and covered over with the trunks and limbs of old timber. the usual construction of the lodges we have lately passed is as follows. ...

— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

More quotes...