To bring a thing into place ready for use, and the weight so brought. What is carried, and the act of taking it up.
Old English lad (way, course, journey; support), which converged in Middle English with the unrelated verb lade, from Old English hladan (to load, to heap up); the sense of a carried burden is a later merger of the two.
To bring a thing into place ready for use, and the weight so brought. The quiet first step every other action in this house waits on.