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

And heare's a place, Though neather of the secretest nor the best, To unlade myself of this Iniquity.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Here the Transfiguration, the St. Peter Martyr, and the St. Jerome of Domenichino stood on the floor, as if they had bent their knees, like camels stooping, to unlade their riches to the spectator.

From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by Hazlitt, William

Here they found a ship about to sail into Phœnicia, and going on board, they passed near the isle of Cyprus, and finally landed at Tyre, "for there the ship was to unlade her burden."

From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Ross, Lady Mary

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 Johnston, Mary