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# lade

«lade» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **load** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

load

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To put a load on or in something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lade/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer normal; today we say "load". "Lade" is old and survives mainly in "laden".

### examples

- And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'Say unto thy brethren: This do ye: lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; (Torah GEN.45.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lade/#x1)
- When at last he gave up the quest his knees trembled beneath him for very weariness, and glad was he to see a tree growing close by lade with fruits of different sorts, of which he ate greedily. (The Orange Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lade/#x2)

### primary record

load

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 2 (Torah 1, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1387/)
- [And they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1451/)
- [Whose oxen are well laden; with no breach, and no going forth, and no outcry in our broad places;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2612/)
- [A man that is laden with the blood of any person shall hasten his steps unto the pit; none will support him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.821/)
- [Yea, He ladeth the thick cloud with moister, He spreadeth abroad the cloud of His lightning;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.984/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lade» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lade/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.