laded; laded or laden
ˈlā-dᵊn 
; lading
; lading
1
1
: to take on cargo : load
a place for ships to lade
2
: to take up or convey a liquid by dipping
Examples of lade in a Sentence
the cook laded the stew into small bowls
the trucks were heavily laden with produce for the market
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The tone is efficient and business-like: details about hogsheads, crop rotations and bills of lading cover over a bloody reality merely hinted at in passing references to rebellion, illness and punishments among the enslaved workers.
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Literary Hub, 29 July 2025
Also, there was no bill of lading that supported the invoices.
—David J. Neal
july 23, Miami Herald, 23 July 2025
The Digital Container Shipping Association, representing nine (9) of the world’s ten (10) largest container lines, has set a target of issuing 100% of bills of lading in an electronic format by 2030.
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Devastating Pyrotechnics has imported more than 240 shipping containers of fireworks into the country since 2019, according to bills of lading compiled by Import Info, a private company that collects and hosts a database of U.S. Customs’ import manifests.
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Literary Hub, 29 July 2025
Also, there was no bill of lading that supported the invoices.
—David J. Neal
july 23, Miami Herald, 23 July 2025
The Digital Container Shipping Association, representing nine (9) of the world’s ten (10) largest container lines, has set a target of issuing 100% of bills of lading in an electronic format by 2030.
—Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
Devastating Pyrotechnics has imported more than 240 shipping containers of fireworks into the country since 2019, according to bills of lading compiled by Import Info, a private company that collects and hosts a database of U.S. Customs’ import manifests.
—Sacbee.com, 12 July 2025
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“Lade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lade. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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lade
verb
laded; laded or laden
ˈlād-ᵊn
; lading
; lading
1
: load entry 2 sense 1a
lade a ship
a truck laden with gravel
2
: to burden heavily
laden with cares
3
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