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

The inconveniences in Spain and Portugal were still greater, for they would by no means suffer our ships, especially those from London, to come into any of their ports, much less to unlade.

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

"But had n't you better unlade yourself o' your merchandise, and fix to enjoy the sail some?"—and he began taking the boxes from her lap.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various

Where would they at last unlade the groaning camels?

From The Garden of Allah by Hichens, Robert Smythe

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

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold