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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

... all I've got to say is that the first man that butts into my private office and starts unloading a cargo of grief on me, is going to get busted between the eyes with a paper weight. I'm through with grief and woe. I don't give a hoot what happens to the world or anybody in it. I want peace and a rest. I can afford it and wouldn't I be ...

— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne

... 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 ...

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

... 28th.—Got to Boulogne yesterday morning; then followed a most difficult day. It was not till 10 P.M. that they began to unload the sick. The unloading staff at Boulogne have been so overworked night and day that trains get piled up waiting to be unloaded. Fifty motor ambulances have been sent for to the Front, and here they have to depend largely on volunteer people with private motors. Then trains ...

— Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 • Anonymous

... Ohio.—In this invention a pinion, attached to the forward axle is made to elevate the plow, when desired, and at the same instant to ungear and stop the endless apron carrier that conveys the dirt from the plow to the cart. A new method of instantly unloading the cart, and setting it again to receive another ...

— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various

... Lawrence turned to the open window that looked across the water to the piazza. Beneath, beside the quay, a green-painted Greek ship was unloading grain. Some panting, half-naked men ...

— Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories • Robert Herrick

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