LADING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lading mean? 

• LADING (noun)
  The noun LADING has 1 sense:

1. goods carried by a large vehicle

  Familiarity information: LADING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LADING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Goods carried by a large vehicle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cargo; consignment; freight; lading; load; loading; payload; shipment

Hypernyms ("lading" is a kind of...):

merchandise; product; ware (commodities offered for sale)

Derivation:

lade (fill or place a load on)

 Context examples 

They all swore, they knew no more than myself; but said, that the captain (as they called him) was resolved, after they had sold the lading, to get rid of me in the first place where they could discover land.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)