lade

verb

  1. To put a load or burden on or in load
  2. To put or place as a load especially for shipment ship
  3. To load heavily or oppressively
  4. Dip, ladle
  5. To take on cargo load

    "a place for ships to lade"

  6. To take up or convey a liquid by dipping

adjective

  1. Affectedly or pretentiously elegant or refined in manners or tastes

    "… they soon became civilized. Two years later Fabyan saw them in Westminster Palace, dressed like la-di-da English courtiers."

biographical name

  1. Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de 1658–1730 French founder of Detroit

geographical name

  1. Commune of western Switzerland in Neuchâtel canton in the Jura Mountains west-northwest of Bern population 43,000

geographical name

  1. Commune in southwestern Spain on the Bay of Algeciras population 65,412

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