UNLADE

unload, unlade, offload

(verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle); “unload the truck”; “offload the van”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

unlade (third-person singular simple present unlades, present participle unlading, simple past unladed, past participle unladen)

(transitive) To unload.

(transitive) To disburden; take the burden from; relieve.

(transitive) To discharge the cargo from.

(intransitive) To discharge a cargo; discharge a burden.

Anagrams

• Deluna, unlead

Source: Wiktionary


Un*lade" v. t. Etym: [1st un- + lade.]

1. To take the load from; to take out the cargo of; as, to unlade a ship or a wagon. The venturous merchant . . . Shall here unlade him and depart no more. Dryden.

2. To unload; to remove, or to have removed, as a load or a burden; to discharge. There the ship was to unlade her burden. Acts. xxi. 3.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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