lading

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   goods or cargo carried by a ship or other vehicle

   The barge delivered its lading of timber before the river froze.

2. 2
   noun

   the action or process of loading a vessel or vehicle

   The careful lading of the ship took most of the afternoon.

The verbal noun of lade, from Old English hladan, 'to load or draw up.' Its cargo sense is preserved in historical transport writing and in bill of lading, the document that records goods received for shipment. It is cognate with Dutch lading and German Ladung.

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