Leade vs Lade - What's the difference?
leade | lade |
That portion of a firearm's barrel immediately in front of the chamber where the bullet travels prior to contacting the rifling.
* 2004 , Tom A. Warlow, Firearms, The Law And Forensic Ballistics ,
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 nouns the difference between leade and lade
is that leade is that portion of a firearm's barrel immediately in front of the chamber where the bullet travels prior to contacting the rifling while lade is the mouth of a river.As a verb lade is
to fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).leade
English
Noun
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- The bullet must then jump some distance before it enters the leade of the rifling in the barrel. There is always some tendency for skidding to occur before the rifling fully engages [....]
Anagrams
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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)