Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LADE, v.t. [pret. laded; pp. laded, laden. Sax. ladan and hladan; G. laden; D. laaden; Sw. ladda; Dan. ladder; Russ. klad, a load or cargo; kladu, to put, to lay, to make, build or found, to lay eggs, to give, to suppose, &c. Here we observe that to load or lade is to throw, that is, to put on or in, for to send, thrust, throw, is the sense of laying eggs. Now this is precisely the radical signification of the words loud, lad, W. llawd, clod, L. plaudo, &c.]

1. To load; to put on or in, as a burden or freight. We lade a ship with cotton. We lade a horse or other beast with corn. And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence. Gen. xlii.
2. To dip; to throw in or out, as a fluid, with a ladle or dipper; as, to lade water out of a tub or into a cistern.
3. To draw water. [Not in use.]