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third-person singular simple present loadens, present participle loadening, simple past and past participle loadened
(transitive, chiefly dialectal) To charge or burden with a load; to burden or freight quotations examples
[…] so, this Distemper of theirs was a Provocation to the Lord to vomit them up: as a man that hath taken something, that loadens his stomach, is sick, until he vomit; […]
1678, John Ryther, The best friend standing at the door
[…] so the wrong imployment of them, loadens him with more real Misery, than any other Creature: […]
1725, Hugh Binning, Heart Humiliation
[…] "who, just as he loadens all others with his favors, so also loadens you," […]
1892, Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer, Commentary on the New Testament
(transitive, chiefly dialectal) To load a gun or pistol quotations examples
The drover dodged hastily, seeking the protection of the big egg-stove. "Hold on there!" he shouted. "Meb-be it's loadened."
1903, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine, volume 33, page 65
(archaic) past participle of load quotations
Eugenius discovered sitting loaden with many Irons, a Lampe burning by him; then enter Clowne with a piece of browne bread and a Carret roote.
1638, “The Martyr'd Souldier”, in Old English Plays, Vol. I
He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of them still, and are now at the Texell, he believes, in expectation of our Eastland ships coming home with masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough ships going to Hambrough.
1665, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1665