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Unloading

noun

The labor of taking a load of something off of or out of a vehicle or ship or container etc..

Unload

verb

Leave or unload. Synonyms: discharge, drop, drop off, put down, set down. "Drop off the passengers at the hotel"

Take the load off (a container or vehicle). Synonyms: offload, unlade. "Offload the van"

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"Unloading" Quotes from Famous Books

... masculine intelligence had led her to make a clean breast of the situation. She showed Mr. Snaffle Mr. Irons's note, calling his attention particularly to the ill-chosen word "all" which seemed to her to afford the means of unloading indefinitely at the expense of the absent financier. Her enthusiasm received a cruel shock when Snaffle retorted with a burst of ...

— The Philistines • Arlo Bates

... Orion Latham was a sort of supercargo and general handy man. He was Tunis' cousin, several times removed. There were four Portygees to make up the company, a full crew for a sailing vessel of the tonnage of the Seamew. Yet every man was needed in handling her lofty canvas and in loading and unloading freight. ...

— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper

... All afternoon the unloading went on. The ship moved slowly leaving a train of floating merchandise in its wake. On the bridge the captain or one of the officers paced back and forth with glass in hand eager to catch the call of the man in the crow's nest if he should catch sight of ...

— Story of Chester Lawrence • Nephi Anderson

... scenes on every hand would have given a person not familiar with war a belief that hopeless confusion existed. Wagons, carts, mule teams and motor trucks-"lorries," the English call them—were dashing to and fro. Men were marching, countermarching, unloading some vehicles, loading others. Soldiers were being marched into the interior to be billeted, others were being directed to their respective French or English units. Officers were shouting commands, and privates were carrying them out to the best of ...

— Air Service Boys in the Big Battle • Charles Amory Beach

... away; but was so cautious as to stop some time at the end of the forest, that he might not go into the town before night. When he came home, he drove the two asses loaded with gold into his little yard, and left the care of unloading them to his wife, while he led the other ...

— The Junior Classics, V5 • Edited by William Patten

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