lightened

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Argosies of viands and wines were lightered in and unloaded while the white-hulled honeymoon yacht creaked at her quay.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Blessed if I know! You’ve lightered all the cargo in my head!”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

There are not a few maiden ladies who are thus lightered over the shoals of a solitary existence by the buoyancy of their own intemperate vanities.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various

The Chandos, sailing from this port within the past two weeks, lightered thirteen hundred tons.

From Two Years in Oregon by Nash, Wallis

Finally at six o'clock in the afternoon, the City Troop, their canvas and commissary having been lightered to the ship, fell in and marched to the dock.

From Campaign of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry April 25-November 11, 1898 by Cooper, James Fenimore