Definition of "unshipping" [unshipping]

• Present participle of unship. (verb)

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• "Strings of pack - horses and pack-donkeys toiled slowly up the staves of the ladders, bearing fish, and coal, and such other cargo as was unshipping at the pier from the dancing fleet of village boats, and from two or three little coasting traders."
• "Meanwhile the sailors progressed rapidly with the task of unshipping the packages and caged animals."
• "That terrible unshipping and reshipping is a sore burden to the unaccustomed traveller."