lade

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /leɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd
• Homophone: laid

From Middle English laden, from Old English hladan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”).

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).
   • Bible, Genesis xlii. 26

     And they laded their asses with the corn.

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

   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act III scene ii:

     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. (nautical) To admit water by leakage.

• bill of lading
• laden
• lading

lade (plural lades)

1. (Scotland) A load.

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

lade (plural lades)

1. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) The mouth of a river.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Gibson to this entry?)

2. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
3. (Scotland) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.

• Adel, Dale, Deal, Dela, E.D. La., Leda, adle, dale, deal, lead

lade f

1. cupboard, cabinet

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• Rhymes: -aːdə

From Old Norse hlaða.

lade c (singular definite laden, plural indefinite lader)

1. (agriculture) barn (building)

From Old Danish latæ, from Old Norse láta, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną.

lade (imperative lad, present tense lader, past tense lod, past participle ladet or ladt)

1. let (to allow)
2. leave (to transfer responsibility or attention)
3. have (cause to, by command or request)
4. have (cause to be)
5. make (force to do)
6. pretend
7. seem, appear

In case of lade vandet (“urinate”), past tense is ladede.

From Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.

lade (imperative lad, present tense lader, past tense ladede, past participle ladet)

1. load
2. charge

In relation to guns, the past participle is ladt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.də/

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lade f (plural laden or lades, diminutive ladetje n)

1. (dated) Alternative form of la

See the etymology of the main entry.

lade

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of laden

• adel, dale

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːdə/
• Rhymes: -aːdə

lade

1. First-person singular present of laden.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of laden.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of laden.
4. Imperative singular of laden.

From Old Dutch *latha, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþō.

lāde f

1. box, case
2. (eastern) plank, beam

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: lade, la
• Limburgish: laaj

• “lade (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• la

From Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.

lade (imperative lad, present tense lader, passive lades, simple past lada or ladet or ladde, past participle lada or ladet or ladd, present participle ladende)

1. (electricity) to charge (e.g. a battery)
2. to load (a weapon)

• lader (noun)

• “lade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /lɑː(dɛ)/

lade

1. past tense of lägga.

• leda
• dela
• adel