Word Meanings - LADING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of loading. 2. That which lades or constitutes a load or cargo; freight; burden; as, the lading of a ship. Bill of lading. See under Bill.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LADING)

• Cargo
• Freight
• burden
• load
• consignment
• merchandise
• lading
• goods
• Load
• Weight
• cargo
• oppression
• incubus
• drag

Related words: (words related to LADING)

• FREIGHT
  1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• LADY-KILLING
  The art or practice of captivating the hearts of women. Better for the sake of womankind that this dangerous dog should leave off lady-killing. Thackeray.
• LADY'S LACES
  A slender climbing plant; dodder.
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• LADYSHIP
  The rank or position of a lady; -- given as a title (preceded by her or your.) Your ladyship shall observe their gravity. B. Jonson.
• FREIGHTAGE
  1. Charge for transportation; expense of carriage. 2. The transportation of freight. 3. Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.
• CONSIGNMENT
  The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc. (more info) 1. The act of consigning; consignation.
• LADINO
  One of the half-breed descendants of whites and Indians; a mestizo; -- so called throughout Central America. They are usually of a yellowish orange tinge. Am. Cyc.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• FREIGHTLESS
  Destitute of freight.
• CARGOOSE
  A species of grebe ; the crested grebe.
• LADIN
  A Romansch dialect spoken in some parts of Switzerland and the Tyrol.
• OPPRESSION
  1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind;
• MERCHANDISER
  A trader. Bunyan.
• LADEN
  Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity. Is. i. 4. A ship laden with gold. Shak.
• LADY'S THIMBLE
  The harebell.
• LADIFY
  To make a lady of; to make ladylike. Massinger.
• LADANUM
  A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of Cistus. It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters, and for fumigation.
• BLADY
  Consisting of blades. "Blady grass." Drayton.
• BALLADE
  A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
• BELLADONNA
  An herbaceous European plant with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• MULADA
  A moor. Lockhart.
• DIGLADIATE
  To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales.
• VINE-CLAD
  Covered with vines.
• SLADE
  1. A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground. Drayton. 2. The sole of a plow.
• GLADE
  also W. golead, goleuad, a lighting, illumination, fr. goleu light, 1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. Pope. 2. An everglade. 3. An opening in the ice of
• AFFREIGHTER
  One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.
• GLADIATOR
  1. Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement. 2. One who engages in any fierce combat or controversy.
• GLADIOLUS
  A genus of plants having bulbous roots and gladiate leaves, and including many species, some of which are cultivated and valued for the beauty of their flowers; the corn flag; the sword lily.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• CEPHALAD
  Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad.