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

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 Robertson, James Alexander

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

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