unlade

American  

[uhn-layd] / ʌnˈleɪd /

verb (used with object)

unladed, unlading

1. to take the lading, load, or cargo from; unload.

2. to discharge (a load or cargo).

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verb (used without object)

unladed, unlading

1. to discharge a load or cargo.

unlade British  

/ ʌnˈleɪd /

verb

1. a less common word for unload

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Etymology

Origin of unlade

First recorded in 1350–1400, unlade is from the Middle English word unladen. See un- ², lade

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

unlade unladed unlading

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

Now, with full sails, into the port I move, And safely can unlade my breast of love; Quiet, and calm: Why should I then go back, To tempt the second hazard of a wreck?

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott

Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Alexander Maclaren

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 Evelyn Everett-Green

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 William Hazlitt

Not later than a day after our anchoring, the ships being unladed, all San Domingo coming and going, trumpets blew and gathered all to our open place before the Viceroy's house.

From 1492 by Mary Johnston

Dan should by this time have been at sea, but his ship being still in the docks when the plague broke out remained yet unladed.

From The Sign of the Red Cross by Evelyn Everett-Green

And so they went down unto the sea in ships,—even in a steam-ship,—sailing to the Havana, where she was unladed of her burden.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

It was into the Bosom of this Maid, that the Princess unladed her first Moans; and the charming Agnes forgot nothing that might give ease to her afflicted Heart.

From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Montague Summers

Here they unladed their whole cargazon of riches, the usual storehouse of the pirates being commonly under the shelter of the bucaniers.

From The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main by George Alfred Williams

Sam burst into tears, and fumbled with the straps, unlading all the pony’s packs and throwing them on the ground.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

It was not a very logical explanation after what he had just been unlading into me.

From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

One or two wharves are fitted in these coves, but I did not see a vessel unlading or a bale of merchandise there.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake

The inhabitants of Marblehead offered to the Boston merchants the use of their harbours, wharfs, and warehouses, together with their personal services in lading and unlading goods, free of all expense.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper

We waited until the heat of the day was past before we resumed our unlading, and we did not finish it until next day, sleeping pretty near all through the night.

From Palm Tree Island by Herbert Strang

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