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unlade

[uhn-leyd] / ʌnˈleɪd /


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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

Common Version: "For there the ship was to unlade her burden."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

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

Consequently, it was necessary to unlade it, and they had to resolve to leave it behind in the port, to their great sorrow.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

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.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

It was then past three o'clock, and the Tartars unladed their houses near a certain water.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Lolonois sent the vessel presently to Tortuga to be unladed, with orders to return as soon as possible to Savona, where he would wait for them.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper

Then they unladed ev'ry man his beast, And to his view expos'd their sacks in haste.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan

Next morning we unladed some of her cargo, being raw silk and silk goods.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

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

The cacique Guacanagari, quite understanding the dangerous situation of the caravel, came with his brothers and other relations, accompanied by a great number of the Indians, and helped in unlading the ship.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World by Dora Leigh

Johnnie saw to the unlading of his last wagon and the shaping off of his wheat-rick.

From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan

When unlading at one port, he seldom knew where he would be sailing to next.

From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables

But even then the unlading was delayed two days by calms which prevented the vessel from coming nearer than several miles from the shore.

From The Niagara River by Archer Butler Hulbert




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