noun
definition
A load.
verb
definition
To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
definition
To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
definition
To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
example
to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern
definition
To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
definition
To admit water by leakage.
Examples of lade in a Sentence
Though it joined in the Ionian revolt against Persia in 500 it was able to send only three ships to the combined fleet which fought at Lade.
In the year 1 000, when the Norwegian king was in Pomerania, a coalition was formed between the king of Sweden, Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark, and earl Eric of Lade, and the allies waylaid their enemy off the coast near Riigen and overthrew him in Reign of the great sea-battle of Svolder.
But the fleet of the Ionians was defeated off the island of Lade, and the destruction of Miletus after a protracted siege was followed by the reconquest of all the Asiatic Greeks, insular as well as continental.
Uhtred was slain by the orders of Canute, who gave the province to Eric (Eirikr) earl of Lade.
This connexion is more clear in the case of Thorger6r HOlgabruor, who is known chiefly from the extreme veneration paid to her by Haakon, earl of Lade (+995).