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

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

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Pox on it, we can't unlade in this squall.

From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas

But from London they would not suffer them to come into port, much less to unlade their goods, upon any terms whatever, and this strictness was especially used with them in Spain and Italy.

From A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London by Defoe, Daniel

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 Lee, Sidney, Sir