Lade: Definition and part of speech

Lade

  1. n. A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
  2. v. t. To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; — generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.
  3. v. t. To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern.
  4. v. t. To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table.
  5. v. t. To draw water.
  6. v. t. To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc.
  7. n. The mouth of a river.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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