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at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels. [Written also key.]

he redhead. -- Raft port (Naut.), a large, square port in a vessel's side for loading or unloading timber or other bulky articles; a timber or lumber port.

A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs. [Western U.S.]

crew of a ship or other vessel. -- Ship's days, the days allowed a vessel for loading or unloading. -- Ship's husband. See under Husband. -- Ship's papers (Mar. Law), papers with which a vessel is required by law to be provided, and the production of which may be required on certain occasions. Among these papers are…

One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

r end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.

To throw off, as a burden; to unload.

To unburden; to unload.

To take from, or set free from, a cart; to unload.

To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif.

Removed, as a burden; unloaded. P. Fletcher.

To loose the girdle or band of; to unbind; to unload. He ungirded his camels. Gen. xxiv. 32.

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.

To remove the shot from, as from a shotted gun; to unload.

The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.