unˈlading, vbl. n.
[f. unlade v.]
The action of unloading or discharging.
| 1428–9 Rec. St. Mary at Hill 70 Also paid..for þe caryage & ladyng & vnladyng, ix d. 1627 J. Taylor (Water P.) Navy of Land Ships Wks. (1630) 82/1 The often returnes, lading and vnlading of this ship. 1691 Lond. Gaz. No. 2656/2 That no such..Vessel shall be above Ten days in Unlading. 1726 Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 75 b, For the more easy unlading of the Shipping. 1818 Sporting Mag. II. 161 Hogarth has already given the picture of the unlading of a stage coach. 1849 E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 210 Affording great facilities for the unlading or shipment of cargoes. |
b. attrib., as unlading place, unlading port, unlading time.
| 1611 Florio, Sbarco,..[an] vnlading place for ships. 1681 Cal. Treas. Bks. 7 The books of the unlading port. 1755 N. Magens Insurances I. 48 The customary unlading Places in that Port. 1884 J. Parker Apost. Life III. 61 We must have landing places, and unlading times,..in life. |