overlade
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of overlade
Middle English word dating back to 1175–1225; see origin at over-, lade
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Overhang, ō-vėr-hang′, v.t. to hang over: to project over: to impend: to overlade with ornamentation.—v.i. to hang over.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
"Men," he says, "may overlade a ship or barge, and therefore I will skip at once to the effect, and let all the rest slip."
From Chaucer by Sir Adolphus William Ward
Cramped inside vessels overladen with precious cargo, crewmembers subsisted on a miserable diet of hardtack, an unleavened bread, and salted meat and fish that routinely spoiled and left many gravely ill.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
A rescue helicopter, already overladen, spotted Lu Moore in her hunter-orange jacket, trying to traverse a sea of downed trees with her husband and son.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2021
While Franny takes to the seas, the narrative needles through her past, which is overladen with abandonment, disappointment and death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2020
In the worst incident, in late April, a grotesquely overladen fishing trawler capsized and sank within sight of a rescue ship; of the estimated 800 migrants aboard, only 28 were saved.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2015
In front of the dusty storefronts where the peddlers would spread their secondhand wares on Sunday mornings, the threadbare awnings had been unrolled to shade carts and tables overladen with food and drinks.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
We then unpacked our box and dried the clothes in it, which were wet through from the overlading of the life-boat.
From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by Henriette McDougall
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