Badest vs Ladest - What's the difference?
badest | ladest |
(archaic) (bid) (second person)
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(archaic) (lade)
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To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
* Bible, Genesis xlii. 26
To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
* Shakespeare
To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
(nautical) To admit water by leakage.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) The mouth of a river.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
(Scottish) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
(Webster 1913)
In archaic terms the difference between badest and ladest
is that badest is simple past of bid (second person while ladest is archaic second-person singular of lade.As an adjective badest
is misspelling of lang=en.badest
English
Verb
(head)- I have done as thou badest me.
Adjective
(head)ladest
English
Verb
(head)lade
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), akin to (etyl) ).Verb
- And they laded their asses with the corn.
- to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern
- And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, / Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way.
Etymology 2
English dialect, a ditch or drain. Compare (lode), (lead) to conduct.Noun
(en noun)- (Bishop Gibson)