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Men from the fartheſt Equinoctiall line, Haue ſwarm’d in troopes into the Eaſterne India: Lading their ſhippe with golde and precious ſtones: And made their ſpoiles from all our prouinces.
1950 January, “Re-Opening of the Eyemouth Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
It was also found that scouring had occurred in the bed of the mill lade, which passes between the first and second piers.
(Scotland) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “lade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
in the expressions lade vandet(“to urinate”) and lade livet(“to die”) (etymologically, they belong to the former verb, but they have the pronunciation and morphology of this verb).