loaden
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 7
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- 6
Definition of loaden
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(dialectal, transitive)To charge or burden with a load; to burden or freight
“[…] so, this Distemper of theirs was a Provocation to the Lord to vomit them up: as a man that hath taken something, that loadens his stomach, is sick, until he vomit; […]”
“[…] so the wrong imployment of them, loadens him with more real Misery, than any other Creature: […]”
“[…] "who, just as he loadens all others with his favors, so also loadens you," […]”
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verb
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(dialectal, transitive)To charge or burden with a load; to burden or freight
“[…] so, this Distemper of theirs was a Provocation to the Lord to vomit them up: as a man that hath taken something, that loadens his stomach, is sick, until he vomit; […]”
“[…] so the wrong imployment of them, loadens him with more real Misery, than any other Creature: […]”
“[…] "who, just as he loadens all others with his favors, so also loadens you," […]”
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(dialectal, transitive)To load a gun or pistol
“The drover dodged hastily, seeking the protection of the big egg-stove. "Hold on there!" he shouted. "Meb-be it's loadened."”
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(archaic, form-of, participle, past)past participle of load
“Eugenius discovered sitting loaden with many Irons, a Lampe burning by him; then enter Clowne with a piece of browne bread and a Carret roote.”
“He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of them still, and are now at the Texell, he believes, in expectation of our Eastland ships coming home with masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough ships going to Hambrough.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From load + -en (“to make like”).
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