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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

... made their reappearance, each laden down with a bulky bundle, under which poor little Elephant seemed almost buried, though he trudged manfully along, and asked no favors ...

— The Airplane Boys among the Clouds - or, Young Aviators in a Wreck • John Luther Langworthy

... but never grows any the softer—up that the heavy boats must make clamber somehow, or not a single timber of their precious frames is safe. A big rope from the capstan at the summit is made fast as soon as the tails of the jackasses (laden with three cwt. of fish apiece) have wagged their last flick at the brow of the steep; and then with "yo-heave-ho" above and below, through the cliffs echoing over the dull sea, the groaning and grinding of the stubborn tug begins. Each boat has her own special ...

— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... a maiden Looked back through the ages dim: She laughed, and her eyes were laden With ...

— AE in the Irish Theosophist • George William Russell

... were drawn up, never to come down again. The man descended the ladder, took it to pieces and disappeared across the plain. Every month he came and fastened his horse to the foot of the tower and climbed it as before, laden with provisions and many other things. He always saw the Prince, so as to make sure that the child was alive and well, and then went away until ...

— The Little Lame Prince - Rewritten for Young Readers by Margaret Waters • Dinah Maria Mulock

... neighboring shipwright who was building sloops and pinnaces and, having learned the trade, set out for Boston. As a ship-carpenter he plied his trade, spent his wages in the taverns of the waterside and there picked up wondrous yarns of the silver-laden galleons of Spain which had shivered their timbers on the reefs of the Bahama Passage or gone down in the hurricanes that beset those southerly seas. Meantime he had married a wealthy widow whose property enabled him to go ...

— The Old Merchant Marine - A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors, Volume 36 in - the Chronicles Of America Series • Ralph D. Paine

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