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overˈlade, v.
[f. over- + lade v. In sense 2 = OHG. ubarhladan, Ger. überladen.]
†1. trans. To lade or draw water out of. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 368 Pot þet walleð swuðe, nule he beon ouerladen, oðer kold water iworpen þerinne and brondes wiðdrawene?
2. trans. To load with too heavy a burden, to overload; to overburden. [over- 21, 27.]
(Chiefly in pa. pple. overladen, in ME. -lade, in 16–17th. c. also -laded.)
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 621 Cleopatras, Men may ouer⁓lade a schip or barge. a1412Lydg. Two Merchants 610 And yiff a tre with frut be ovirlade..Both braunche and bough wol enclyne and fade. 1531Tindale Exp. 1 John (1537) 27 The byshoppes..solde theyr penaunce to the riche, and ouerladed the poore. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1969/1 One of the kings ships..was drowned in the middest of the haven, by reason that she was overladen with ordinance. a1618Raleigh Rem. (1664) 44 Their fleece taken from them lest it overlade them, and grow too heavy. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh ii. 806 Since friend Betwixt us two, forsooth, must be a word So heavily overladen.
Hence overˈladen ppl. a.; overˈlading vbl. n.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxxi. 263 He was vnweldly by reason of ouer ladynge of flesshe. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes vi. vi-vii. 209 Will you like an overladen Tree, be propt up with a fork? 1811Two Rep. Thames Navig. 28 To prevent the overlading of barges. 1866Ruskin Crown Wild Olive iv. (1898) 195 Help up the overladen horses. |