unlade
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If I had been at Oxford this term I should probably have rushed off to Hull to unlade fish.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2010
Here, the first roaming and excitement abated, they began to unlade the ships, and to build the fort and also booths for their present sleeping.
From Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings by Mary Johnston
A sailor who loves voyaging may say, when weather-bound, "Here rest, unlade the ship, sleep on this grassy bank."
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus) Brooke
Let my Chariots be prepar'd, we'll leave this hated place, and in my Castle unlade our Cares.
From The Female Wits by Anonymous
He is the fountaine whence my streames doe flowe— Forgive me if I speake as I was taught, A lyke to women, utter all I knowe, As longing to unlade so bad a fraught.
From The Choise of Valentines Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo by John Stephen Farmer
A paved area, very wide, is included within the walls; and along the edge of the quays are ranges of iron sheds, intended as a temporary shelter for the goods unladed from the shipping.
From Redburn. His First Voyage by Herman Melville
When unladed at Babylon, the air is let out of the skins, which are then laid on the backs of camels and carried back to serve for another voyage.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr
The cargo of the Siamese ship was unladed carefully, and it was found that it was worth about one hundred thousand pesos.
He took it to the kingdom of Siam and ascended the river for thirty leguas, unladed his goods, and disposed of them as well as possible, for they were injured by the water.
Dan should by this time have been at sea, but his ship being still in the docks when the plague broke out remained yet unladed.
From The Sign of the Red Cross by Evelyn Everett-Green
Sam burst into tears, and fumbled with the straps, unlading all the pony’s packs and throwing them on the ground.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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People employed in unlading vessels, carrying bales of goods, &c.
From Inkle and Yarico An opera, in three acts by George Colman
The wharf arrangements are the most convenient, for lading and unlading goods at all stages of the water, to be found on our western rivers.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
At Tonga she was detained a week and more; unlading and taking in stores.
From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner
Then I walked by the Spree and saw there hundreds of soldiers employed in lading and unlading merchants' wares; the timber yard also was full of soldiers at work.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
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