Noun: lade
Sample Sentences
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Every trickling tiny lade, every foaming brook, told its own story. [1873, Henry Kingsley, Oakshott Castle:]
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It was also found that scouring had occurred in the bed of the mill lade, which passes between the first and second piers. [1950 January, “Re-Opening of the Eyemouth Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:]
Nouns inflected like lade
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English laden, from Old English hladan and Old English hleadan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”). See: Old English Nouns '
hladan', Old English Nouns '
hleadan'.