lade

Meanings

1. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
2. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
3. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
4. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
5. To admit water by leakage.

1. A load.

1. The mouth of a river.
2. A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
3. (mill lade) A mill race.
4. Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.

1. A surname.
2. A coastal hamlet in Lydd parish, Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0820).

1. An ancient island off the coast of Miletus; now part of the mainland of Asia Minor.

Etymology

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