lade

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To load with or as if with cargo.
• intransitive verb To place (something) as a load for or as if for shipment.
• intransitive verb To burden or oppress; weigh down.
• intransitive verb To take up or remove (water) with a ladle or dipper.
• intransitive verb To take on cargo.
• intransitive verb To ladle a liquid.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To put a burden, load, or cargo on or in; load; charge: as, to lade a ship with cotton; to lade a horse with corn.
• Figuratively, to burden: oppress.
• To lift or throw in or out, as a fluid, with a ladle or other utensil: as, to lade water out of a tub or into a cistern.
• To admit (water).
• To draw water.
• noun A way; course. See lode.
• noun A watercourse; a channel for water; a ditch or drain; in Scotland, specifically, a mill-race, especially a headrace.
• noun The mouth of a river.
• noun A load; specifically, a bag of meal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete The mouth of a river.
• noun Prov. Eng. A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
• intransitive verb obsolete To draw water.
• intransitive verb (Naut.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc.
• transitive verb To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.
• transitive verb To throw in or out, with a ladle or dipper; to dip.
• transitive verb (Plate Glass Manuf.) To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun UK, dialect, obsolete The mouth of a river.
• noun UK, dialect, obsolete A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
• noun Scotland Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
• verb To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
• verb To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
• verb To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb remove with or as if with a ladle
• verb fill or place a load on