Definition of Overlade

1. v. t. To load with too great a cargo; to overburden; to overload.

Definition of Overlade

1. Verb. (transitive) To load with too great a cargo or other burden; overburden; overload. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overlade

1. to load with too great a burden [v -LADED, -LADEN, -LADING, -LADES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlade

overkilling
overkills
overkind
overking
overkings
overknee
overknowing
overlabor
overlabored
overlaboring
overlabors
overlabour
overlaboured
overlabouring
overlabours
overlade (current term)
overladed
overladen
overlades
overlading
overlaid
overlain
overlaminate
overlaminates
overland
overlander
overlanders
overlands
overlanguaged
overlap

Literary usage of Overlade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1895)
"309], sailed from India towards Portugal, was cast away by the Cape of Good Hope: where it burst in pieces, being overladen (for they do commonly overlade ..."

2. The Voyage of John Huyghen Van Linschoten to the East Indies: From the Old by Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Arthur Coke Burnell, Pieter Anton Tiele (1885)
"-^c^^»-O8 sible to escape, because they overlade them, and are so bad!" f ih provided otherwise, with little order among their men, so Hi ^m Man not one ..."

3. A Treatise on Self Knowledge: Showing the Nature and Benefit of that by John Mason (1828)
"It is of as ill consequence to overlade a weak memory, ... If it be weak, do not overlade it. Charge it only with the most useful and solid notions. ..."

4. Udviklingslaere by Oscar Hansen (1902)
"En Mand og en Kvinde, der grundig har ødelagt Nervesystemet ved Drik eller paa anden Maade, har næppe den Mulighed for at overlade Børnene saa sunde Nerver, ..."

5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... lest that I should slake Of thing that beareth more effect and charge. For men may overlade a ship or barge, And forthy, to effect than woll I skippe, ..."

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