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
He is the fountaine whence my streames do flowe— Forgive me if I speak as I was taught; Alike to women, utter all I knowe, As longing to unlade so bad a fraught.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee
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
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
At noonday hosts of heavy baskets unlade their toothsome freight, and a merry feast is seasoned with Attic salt.
From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton
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
Not later than a day after our anchoring, the ships being unladed, all San Domingo coming and going, trumpets blew and gathered all to our open place before the Viceroy's house.
From 1492 by Mary Johnston
Again we unladed and laded, and again voyaged to Marseilles.
From 1492 by Mary Johnston
And so they went down unto the sea in ships,—even in a steam-ship,—sailing to the Havana, where she was unladed of her burden.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
Here they unladed their whole cargazon of riches, the usual storehouse of the pirates being commonly under the shelter of the bucaniers.
From The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main by George Alfred Williams
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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Casco, kas′kō, n. a form of boat used at Manila for lading and unlading ships.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Every one was now busily employed in unlading the Windward, and bringing to land the supplies of provisions, coal, reindeer-moss, and other such things which it had brought for the expedition.
From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen
Particularly on the ships that made port the last few days and haven't finished unlading.
From Caribbee by Thomas Hoover
At Tonga she was detained a week and more; unlading and taking in stores.
From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner
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