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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
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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