Glade vs Lade - What's the difference?
glade | lade |
An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
* 2003 , Newsweek, Travel:
* 1851 ,
(colloquial) An everglade.
an open space in the ice on a river or lake
a bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice
(obsolete) a gleam of light; see moonglade
(obsolete) a bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds
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)
As a noun glade
is an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.As an adverb lade is
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English
(wikipedia glade)Noun
(en noun)In The Trees, Nov 23, 2003
- ... are creating more "glades ," or cleared trails through the woods, for less experienced (blue) skiers. They're a throwback to the first days of skiing, before resorts cut wide swaths of trees, and machines rolled and packed the snow.
- [...] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
- In the latter days of a ferocious winter, the sun dropped earthwards, having on this day pulled clear of its sluggish trajectory casting a few meek rays on the redoubtable snow and frost of the mountain glade . — Vignette:
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* moonglade * sungladeReferences
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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)