Obs. Also 1 hlæd, 3 ladd. [f. LADE v. (OE. hlæd is commonly compared with ON. hlað stack, pile, and interpreted ‘mound,’ because it renders L. agger; but the sense of ‘burden’ is possible.)] a. Draught. b. Load, burden, lading.
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past., xxi. 160. Besittað hie utan … & berað hiere hlæd to [L. comportabis aggerem].
c. 1200. Ormin, 19313. We lodenn alle twinne ladd Off hiss godnessess welle.
c. 1435. Torr. Portugal, 1663. With hym faught a yong knyght Ech on other laid good lade.
1502. Arnolde, Chron. (1811), 229. That they may be in our sayde landis and lordshippys for too bye and gader lade and freith and cary awaye, or doo to bee caryed awey and conueied into the sayde kyngdom of England.
