Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of loading.
- noun Cargo; freight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of loading.
- noun That which constitutes a load or cargo; freight; burden: as, the lading of a ship.
- noun In glass-making, the transfer of the glass into the cuvettes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of loading.
- noun That which lades or constitutes a load or cargo; freight; burden.
- noun See under
Bill .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable The action of
loading . - noun uncountable
Shipment ,cargo ,freight . - verb Present participle of
lade .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
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Examples
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[Yet] we put the vast business of a custom house in the hands of a flathead who does not know a bill of lading from a transit of Venus [laughter and a pause] — never having heard of either of them before, [and entrusted the Treasury Department to] an ignorant villager who never before could wrestle with a two-weeks 'wash-bill without getting thrown.
The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr. 2001
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Employees shall be required to submit the original bills of lading, or a certified copy thereof or if no bill of lading is available, other evidence showing point of origin, destination, and weight.
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If no bill of lading is required, other evidence showing point of origin, destination, and weight shall be required.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9805 1946
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My efforts to prepare my companions were rendered nearly futile -- for the roaring breakers prevented our hearing one another speak, and the waves, that broke continually over our boat, obliged me to exert all my strength in lading the water out, as fast as it came in.
III.9 1826
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a third stands quietly until his lading is nearly completed, and then suddenly starts and flounces until he throws every thing off, a fourth at the same interesting point stamps upon your foot, breaks away, and scampers off into the prairie, strewing the way with his burden, a fifth refuses to be loaded at all, and a sixth to stand still, be led or driven.
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We already know that Libertarian theory doesn’t have a serious problem with the sale of humans, and whether the bill of lading is signed at birth or adulthood is an artificial distinction.
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-- Captain Huntly's bill of lading, that is to say, the document that describes the Chancellor's cargo and the conditions of transport, is couched in the following terms: Bronsfield and Co.,
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The fairies of sleep are sailing in them, and the lading is their baskets full of dreams.
The Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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-- Captain Huntly's bill of lading, that is to say, the document that describes the "Chancellor's" cargo and the conditions of transport, is couched in the following terms: --
The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger Jules Verne 1866
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And I stoode in doubt of that which came to passe, and would not vnlade my goods because that they were more sure in the shippe then on the land, the greatest part of the lading was the owners of the shippe, who was in Malacca, yet there were diuerse marchants there, but their goods were of small importance, all those marchants tolde me that they would not vnlade any of their goods there, vnlesse I would vnlade first, yet after they left my counsell and followed their owne, and put their goods a lande and lost euery whit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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