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
I managed, with difficulty, to unship the sail, and devoted myself to baling the boat, which threatened at any moment to be swamped by the green water which came aboard of her.
From Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by George Forbes
Once we unship our flag mast, and we shall lie so saucy and close that behind a bank of rushes we never would be seen.
From The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Harry A. Mathes
Unfortunately there was not time to unship the rudder, so it suffered very severely.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by Francis Leopold McClintock
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
As Davos unshipped the oars and slid them into the choppy black water, he said, "Who rowed you to Renly?"
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
A huge billow, which seemed to chase them with gigantic speed and force, broke over the boat, nearly filling it with water, and at the same time unshipping and sweeping away their rudder.
From King Philip Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
It was while she was lying at her home port that one of the Revenue officers discovered a concealment under her ballast, the entrance to which was obtained by unshipping two bulkhead boards forward.
From King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton
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