lading, vbl. n.
(ˈleɪdɪŋ)
[f. lade v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb lade; the loading of a ship with its cargo; the bailing or ladling out of water, etc. bill of lading (see bill n.3 10).
| 1500 Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 391 In lading and discharding of his goodes..into forayn realmis. 1661 Feltham Resolves, Lusoria xxxv. (1677) 32 Must we haue fire still glowing under us, Only that we with constant Lading may Keep our selues cool? 1743 Lond. & Country Brew. ii. (ed. 2) 121 Where the Water is put over by the Hand-bowl, or what is called Lading over. 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 589 The transfer of the glass into the cuvettes, is called lading. |
2. concr. That with which a ship is laded; freight, cargo.
† Also
transf. (see
quots. 1611, 1621).
| 1526 Tindale Acts xxvii. 10 Syrs, I perceave that thys vyage wilbe with hurte and domage, not off the ladynge and shippe only: but also off oure lyues. 1611 Cotgr., Prendre son sel, to swill, quaffe, caroose; to take in his lading, or his liquor, to the full. 1621 Molle Camerar. Liv. Libr. v. xiii. 369 Drunkards..when they haue their lading of wine. 1669 Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1694) 7 With much ado I got off a boats lading of Water. 1670 Ibid. (1711) 91, I was bound for China, and..had rich Lading for that Country. 1709 Lond. Gaz. No. 4598/4 Two Ships lading of..Russia Rhine Hemp. 1834 H. Miller Scenes & Leg. xxi. (1857) 303 A small sloop..entered the frith, to take in a lading of meal. 1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 169 The crews were saved, but much of the lading was lost or damaged. 1870 Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 184 A lading of great rarities. |
| fig. 1850 Tennyson In Mem. xxv, When mighty Love would cleave in twain The lading of a single pain. |
† 3. A place where cargoes are laded.
Obs.| 1594 Norden Spec. Brit., Essex (Camden) 10 It is inuironed with creekes, which leade to certayne ladinges, as to Landymer lading..wher they take in wood. |
4. attrib. and
Comb., as
lading-can (
dial.),
† lading gin,
lading hole,
lading utensil,
lading well.
| 1886 Cheshire Gloss., *Lading can, a small tin can, containing two or three quarts, used for taking hot water out of a boiler. [Common in the north midlands and Yorkshire.] |
| 1497 Nav. Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 103 *Lading gynne..j. Ibid. 104 Lading gynnes..iij. |
| 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 589 Glass-making, In this operation [‘lading’] ladles of wrought iron are employed, which are plunged into the pots through the upper openings or *lading holes. |
| 1872 Hardwick Trad. Lanc. 189 The only *lading or baling utensil employed by the miserable sinner should be a limpet shell. |
| 1769 Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 14 Aug., The *lading⁓well in this ill-fated George Lane lies shamefully neglected. |