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

Where would they at last unlade the groaning camels?

From The Garden of Allah by Hichens, Robert Smythe

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

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 Everett-Green, Evelyn

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