lading

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪdɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ

lading (countable and uncountable, plural ladings)

1. (countable) The action of loading.

   Synonym: loading

2. (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:

     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.

3. (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.

lading

1. present participle and gerund of lade

• ligand

From laden +‎ -ing.

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lading f (plural ladingen, diminutive ladinkje n)

1. cargo
2. charge, tension
3. (electricity) charge
4. (figuratively) undertone, undercurrent

• Berbice Creole Dutch: lai
• Negerhollands: ladiṅ
• → Aukan: lai
• → Saramaccan: lái
• Sranan Tongo: lai
  • → Caribbean Javanese: lai

• daling

lading

1. Romanization of ꦭꦢꦶꦁ

• IPA^(key): [ˈladiŋ]

lading (Lontara spelling ᨒᨉᨗ)

1. knife