LADE, verb transitive preterit tense laded; participle passive laded, laden. 1. To load; to put on or in, as a burden or freight. We lade a ship with cotton. We lade a horse or other beast with corn. And they laded their asses with the corn and departed thence. Genesis 42:26. 2. To dip; to throw in or out, as a fluid, with a ladle or dipper; as, to lade water out of a tub or into a cistern. 3. To draw water. [Not in use.] LADE, noun The mouth of a river. obsolete
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