Other forms: reloaded, reloading, reloads
To reload is to fill something with ammunition or supplies again. Reload the gun, stop to reload, reload the page.
The web sense is now the commonest: to reload a page is to fetch it again from the server. In shooting, reload also names the hobby of making cartridges at home from spent cases.
1verbreloadTo fill something with ammunition or supplies again.
“The hunter stopped behind a tree to reload his gun.”
reload is a filling.
Proto-Indo-European
*leyt- — to go, go forth, die
Proto-Germanic
*laidō — leading, way
Old English
lād — course, journey; way, street, waterway; leading, carrying; maintenance, support
Middle English
lode
English
load
English, today
reload
From re- + load. load The sense of “burden” first arose in the 13th century as a secondary meaning of Middle English lode, loade, which had the main significance of “way, course, journey”, from Old English lād (“course, journey; way, street, waterway; leading, carrying; maintenance, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic laidō (“leading, way”), Proto-Indo-European leyt- (“to go, go forth, die”). Cognate with Middle Low German leide (“entourage, escort”), German Leite (“line, course, load”), Swedish led (“way, trail, line”), Icelandic leið (“way, course, route”). As such, load is a a doublet of lode, which has preserved the older meaning. Most likely, the semantic extension of the Middle English substantive arose by conflation with the (etymologically unrelated) verb lade; however, Middle English lode occurs only as a substantive; the transitive verb load (“to charge with a load”) is recorded only in the 16th century (frequently in Shakespeare),
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