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

Swift at the word descending to the shores, They moor the vessel and unlade the stores: Then, moving from the strand, apart they sate, And full and frequent form'd a dire debate.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

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)

He is the fountaine whence my streames doe flowe— Forgive me if I speake as I was taught, A lyke to women, utter all I knowe, As longing to unlade so bad a fraught.

From The Choise of Valentines Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo by Farmer, John Stephen

Then unlade yourself as fast as you can, for fear you should sink, being so over-freighted.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius