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

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

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)

She ran, however, upon the bar, and the people were forced to unlade her to get off.

From Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by Fowler, William Worthington

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

From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas