Meaning & use
Lades
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Loads or fills something, especially a ship, with cargo.
See it in a sentence
The old poem describes how the merchant lades his vessel with silk and spice.
In dialect speech, one might say the farmer lades the wagon before dawn.
A note on using this word
An archaic form of 'lade,' related to 'laden,' as in 'heavily laden ship'; rarely used outside older or literary texts.
Words with a similar meaning
loadsfreights
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Words with an opposite meaning
unloads
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