lade
verb
[ leɪd ]
• put cargo on board (a ship).
Origin:
Old English hladan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German laden ‘to load’, also to ladle and perhaps to lathe.
lade
noun
• a channel constructed to carry the swift current of water that drives a mill wheel.
• "a lade from off the Tarland Burn"
Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense ‘watercourse, mouth of a river’): probably a variation of lead1; perhaps confused with lade, the Scots and Northern form of lode.
