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4 nautical terms (boats, equipment, etc.)
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lading
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tags: [nautical]
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Definition:the action of loading a ship with cargo or the cargo itself
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Our ship being freed from the disagreeable lading of negroes, to whom, indeed, I had been a miserable slave since our leaving the coast of Guinea,
Tobias Smollett. The Adventures of Roderick Random (1749)
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Sometimes they are forced to do so 2 or 3 times before they can take in their lading; which it is hard to do here in the fairest weather: and for fresh water they send, as I have said, to Santa Cruz.
William Dampier. A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699
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His bills of lading were rhymed no matter how he tried to avoid it, and routine business letters had a lyrical spirit that diminished their authority.
Gabriel García Márquez. Love in the Time of Cholera (1988)
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