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Unloading   /ənlˈoʊdɪŋ/   Listen
Unloading

noun
1.
The labor of taking a load of something off of or out of a vehicle or ship or container etc..



Unload

verb
1.
Leave or unload.  Synonyms: discharge, drop, drop off, put down, set down.  "Drop off the passengers at the hotel"
2.
Take the load off (a container or vehicle).  Synonyms: offload, unlade.  "Offload the van"






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"Unloading" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Yes," said my son, "Then it is all right," said the man, "I was told to leave them here," and he began to unload. Both children and mother were afraid there was some mistake, but the man went on unloading, and stocked the house with food for weeks ...
— Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again - A Life Story • Joseph Barker

... the work of unloading. Each car was being emptied at the edge of the trestle on the other side of the grade, where a long shoot had been scooped from the bank and walled off to direct the falling rocks from ...
— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan

... passed on up the stream to the Coteau des Cedres. Menard and Father Claude were both accustomed to take the rapid without carrying, or even unloading, but Danton looked at the swirling water with doubt in his eyes. When the maid, leaning back in the canoe while the men halted at the bank to make fast for the passage, saw the torrent that tumbled and pitched merrily down toward them, she laughed. To hold a sober mood for long was ...
— The Road to Frontenac • Samuel Merwin

... Honourable Thomas Elder with camels and a good equipment to find an overland route to Perth, but was unable to get over to Western Australia. We were soon introduced to Mr. Blood, the officer in charge of the telegraph station, and, after unloading, were soon engaged at dinner, the roast beef and plum pudding being a striking contrast to our fare lately! Both Mr. and Mrs. Blood, as well as Mr. Bagot, did all they could to make us comfortable during our ...
— Explorations in Australia • John Forrest

... house, till they reach the lower windows. Ox-teams, laden with a rustling load of Indian corn, in the stalk and ear. When an inlet of the sea runs far up into the country, you stare to see a large schooner appear amid the rural landscape; she is unloading a cargo of wood, moist with rain or salt water that has dashed over it. Perhaps you hear the sound of an axe in the woodland; occasionally, the report of a fowling-piece. The travellers in the early part of the afternoon look warm and comfortable, as if ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 • Various


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