lading

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LA'DING, participle present tense Loading; charging with a burden or freight; throwing or dipping out. LA'DING, noun That which constitutes a load or cargo; freight; burden; as the lading of a ship. Acts 27:10.
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