unship
Americanverb (used with object)
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to put or take off from a ship, as persons or goods.
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to remove from the place proper for its use, as an oar or tiller.
verb (used without object)
verb
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to be or cause to be unloaded, discharged, or disembarked from a ship
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(tr) nautical to remove from a regular place
to unship oars
Etymology
Origin of unship
Example Sentences
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I don’t think we’re going to unship IGTV, though.
From The Verge ● Jan. 19, 2021
And orders were to unship all old ammunition, take aboard new.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it would be rather a cumbersome contrivance to ship and unship, and I would not recommend it unless there is likely to be much of this sort of thing between here and our destination.”
From Turned Adrift by Hodgson, Edward S.
As he came whistling on, and approached the staff, looking cautiously around him, Edward thought it was time to commence proceedings, especially as the old man laid hold of the flagstaff to unship it.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
And it also has a rudder that you can unship and use as a safety razor.
From Boy Scouts in the Philippines Or, The Key to the Treaty Box by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)
When will Iran run out of space to store its unshipped oil?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Burr asked Martin, with a smirk suggesting he had just unshipped a “gotcha.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
Only if McCoy is somehow unshipped in the early stages of today's race would Nicholls consider giving the horse another run next month, and even then he would much rather prepare him at home.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2011
As fast as the cars arrived, the railroads routed them to prairie lines, where more than a billion bushels of corn and wheat from last year's harvest lay unshipped.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ship now drifting under the island lee, Telemakhos’ companions took in sail and mast, unshipped the oars and rowed ashore.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
As I’ve talked to you and other folks at Instagram before, there’s a lot of pride in unshipping features and keeping the app lean.
From The Verge ● Jan. 19, 2021
Victory went to Fuisse, who had delayed the start of the race by 15 minutes when twice unshipping his jockey Stéphane Pasquier in the preliminaries and running loose.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2010
Almost killed when his radical Paula III overturned in 1933, unshipping her mast and smashing her hull down on him, Starke Meyer returned to racing, continued his experimental Paula series through 1935.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain Poke lost no time in unshipping the skids; and a smacking breeze, that was well saturated with steam, springing up from the westward, we made sail.
From The Monikins by Cooper, James Fenimore
A schooner and some small craft were beating up the Americanos River towards the Fort, and alongside the landing-place several launches were lying unshipping cargoes.
From California Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts by Vizetelly, Henry
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