lade
kind
archaic word
modern equivalent
load
part of speech
verb
meaning for a pupil
To put a load on or in something. tree →
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 →
- 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 →
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.
- And they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
- Whose oxen are well laden; with no breach, and no going forth, and no outcry in our broad places;
- A man that is laden with the blood of any person shall hasten his steps unto the pit; none will support him.
- Yea, He ladeth the thick cloud with moister, He spreadeth abroad the cloud of His lightning;
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «lade» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.