Obs. [f. WATER sb. + LADE sb.2] A channel for water, an aqueduct.

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[c. 1050.  Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 339/4. Aqueductum [= -uum, genit. pl.], wæterʓelada.]

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 11936. Lakes seuen he made o clai, And til ilkan a fur he made Þat suld be þaim to watur lade, Þat water moght rin fra and till, Vte of þe flum al atte will. Ibid., 12019.

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1421.  Cov. Leet Bk., 28. Þat every deister of this Cite, that hath a waturlad ouer the comyn Ryver, schall pay to the Chamburlayns of this Cite euery yer xijd.

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1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 747. The channells were not skoured … but the water-lades stopped up either through negligence, or depopulation.

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