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
Not for full fourteen days: it had but just come into port, and there be much merchandise to unlade and lade again.
From The Secret Chamber at Chad by Evelyn Everett-Green
Common Version: "For there the ship was to unlade her burden."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
Now, with full sails, into the port I move, And safely can unlade my breast of love; Quiet, and calm: Why should I then go back, To tempt the second hazard of a wreck?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
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
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
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
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
Thereupon, since the entrance of the bay was unoccupied, they sent for the almiranta, which had put in and had been unladed.
It was a very quiet boat that unladed the Pennybets on the steps of a stone pier at Falmouth, and then swung round and carried Edgar up its own wake.
From Tell England A Study in a Generation by Ernest Raymond
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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Most all the trade of the city is carried on in the upper part of the town, where there are a number of warehouses, stores, wharves, and other conveniences for lading and unlading ships.
From History of New Brunswick by Peter Fisher
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
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
We waited until the heat of the day was past before we resumed our unlading, and we did not finish it until next day, sleeping pretty near all through the night.
From Palm Tree Island by Herbert Strang
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