lading
See also: Lādīng
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lading (countable and uncountable, plural ladings)
- (countable) The action of loading.
- Synonym: loading
- (uncountable) Shipment, cargo, freight.
- Synonyms: freight, load, payload, shipment, consignment
- 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
- the ship remained there, in providing his lading and preparing for his voyage, nearly three months […]
- 2023, Transportation Safety Board of Canada, Rail transportation safety investigation report R19T0107[1]:
- The B-end of car DJJX 30478 […] was relatively intact but was surrounded by scrap steel lading from the car, which had been released to the track surface […] The bathtub gondola car structural features produced a car that could carry more lading and provided a relatively obstruction-free car interior which, when combined with the rotary dump feature, permitted the free-flow of granular lading and rapid evacuation of the load with little or no residue left in the car.
- (figuratively) Burden.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXV, page 42:
- Nor could I weary, heart or limb,
When mighty Love would cleave in twain
The lading of a single pain,
And part it, giving half to him.
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the action of loading
shipment, cargo, freight
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lading
- present participle and gerund of lade
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lading f (plural ladingen, diminutive ladinkje n)
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- Berbice Creole Dutch: lai
- Negerhollands: ladiṅ
- → Aukan: lai
- → Saramaccan: lái
- Sranan Tongo: lai
- → Caribbean Javanese: lai
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lading
- Romanization of ꦭꦢꦶꦁ
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lading (Lontara spelling ᨒᨉᨗ)