Lading

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lade \Lade\ (l[=a]d), v. t. [imp. {Laded}; p. p. {Laded},
     {Laden} (l[=a]d'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lading}.] [AS. hladan to
     heap, load, draw (water); akin to D. & G. laden to load, OHG.
     hladan, ladan, Icel. hla[eth]a, Sw. ladda, Dan. lade, Goth.
     afhla[thorn]an. Cf. {Load}, {Ladle}, {Lathe} for turning,
     {Last} a load.]


     1. To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally
        followed by that which receives the load, as the direct
        object.
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              And they laded their asses with the corn. --Gen.
                                                    xlii. 26.
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     2. To throw in or out, with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to
        lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern.
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              And chides the sea that sunders him from thence,
              Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way. --Shak.
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     3. (Plate Glass Manuf.) To transfer (the molten glass) from
        the pot to the forming table.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lading \Lad"ing\, n.
     1. The act of loading.
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     2. That which lades or constitutes a load or cargo; freight;
        burden; as, the lading of a ship.
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     {Bill of lading}. See under {Bill}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lading
       n : goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: {cargo}, {freight}, {load},
            {loading}, {payload}, {shipment}, {consignment}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "lading":
     allocation, assignment, baggage, bale, bellyful, bumper, burden,
     burdening, burthen, capacity, cargo, carload, cartload, charge,
     charging, collocation, complement, consignment, cram, crush,
     cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, deployment, deposit, deposition,
     disposition, drag, emplacement, encumbrance, fill, freight,
     freightage, full house, full measure, goods, handicap, haul,
     impedimenta, incubus, incumbency, jam up, load, loading,
     localization, locating, location, luggage, millstone, mouthful,
     oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, pack, packing,
     payload, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, posting,
     pressure, putting, reposition, saddling, shipload, shipment,
     situation, skinful, snootful, spotting, stationing, storage,
     stowage, superincumbency, surcharge, taxing, trailerload,
     trainload, truckload, vanload