loaden

present singular third person loadens · participle present loadening · participle past loadened · past loadened

1. dialectaltransitiveTo charge or burden with a load; to burden or freight

   […] "who, just as he loadens all others with his favors, so also loadens you," […]

   1892, Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer, Commentary on the New Testament

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   […] so, this Distemper of theirs was a Provocation to the Lord to vomit them up: as a man that hath taken something, that loadens his stomach, is sick, until he vomit; […]

   1678, John Ryther, The best friend standing at the door

   […] so the wrong imployment of them, loadens him with more real Misery, than any other Creature: […]

   1725, Hugh Binning, Heart Humiliation

2. dialectaltransitiveTo load a gun or pistol

   The drover dodged hastily, seeking the protection of the big egg-stove. "Hold on there!" he shouted. "Meb-be it's loadened."

   1903, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine, volume 33, page 65

1. archaicparticiplepastpast participle of load

   Eugenius discovered sitting loaden with many Irons, a Lampe burning by him; then enter Clowne with a piece of browne bread and a Carret roote.

   1638, “The Martyr'd Souldier”, in Old English Plays, Vol. I

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   He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of them still, and are now at the Texell, he believes, in expectation of our Eastland ships coming home with masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough ships going to Hambrough.

   1665, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1665