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Definition of "unlade" [un•lade]

  • To unload (cargo) from a ship. (verb-transitive)
  • To unload (a ship). (verb-transitive)
  • To discharge a cargo. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "unlade" in a sentence
  • "And when they unlade any Ship of great fraught, there are prepared"
  • "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."
  • "It is of sincere faith, to unlade our unbelief in the bosom of our God."