Obs. exc. dial. Also 6 loden. [f. LOAD sb. + -EN5.] trans. = LOAD v., in various senses. Hence Loadened ppl. a.
1568. Q. Eliz., Lett. to Mary Q. Scots, 21 Dec., in H. Campbell, Love-Lett. Mary (1824), App. 55. We did not thynk … to have seen or heard such matters of so great apparence & moment to charge & loden yow.
1628. Gaule, Pract. Theory (1629), 167. That they straiten not our Thoughts, ere they loaden our Backes.
1638–48. G. Daniel, Eclog., I. 213. Our loadned trees Beare equall Burthens.
1658. Bromhall, Treat. Specters, I. 96. A loadned and ballasted ship.
1768. Sterne, Sent. Journ. (1775), I. 52. (Letter) He had loaden’d himself in going up stairs with a thousand compliments to Madame.
1790. A. Wilson, Poems & Lit. Prose (1876), II. 278. With ripe fruit the loaden’d bough Bends to the swaird.
1877. N. W. Linc. Gloss., Loadened, loaded. ‘I wen’t hev loaden’d guns browt into th’ hoose.’
1880. Antrim & Down Gloss., s.v., I was told to loaden up with flax.
1889. Mabel Peacock, Lincs. Tales, 127. When he’s tekken his jackit off to help to loäden a cart.
