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To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast.

One who, or that which, unloads; a device for unloading, as hay from a wagon.

y bulk. Turbervile. Barrel bulk. See under Barrel. -- To break bulk (Naut.), to begin to unload or more the cargo. -- In bulk, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in separate packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape that any desired quantity may be taken or sold. -- Laden in bulk, Stowed in bulk, having the…

The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels.

on of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing.

To unload; to disburden. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. Copland.

To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve. He did it to disburden a conscience. Feltham. My mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened. Hammond.

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

dock where the water is shut in, and kept at a given level, to facilitate the loading and unloading of ships; -- also sometimes used as a place of safety; a basin.

To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc. [U.S.] Bartlett. Dumping car or cart, a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also dump car, or dump cart.

To unload; to disburden; to discharge. [Obs.] All exonerate themselves into one common duct. Ray.

, as by powder. But late the kindled powder did explode The massy ball and the brass tube unload. Blackmore.

A fork for pitching and tedding hay. Horse hayfork, a contrivance for unloading hay from the cart and depositing it in the loft, or on a mow, by horse power.

or, setting, bringing, or going, on shore. Landing charges, charges or fees paid on goods unloaded from a vessel. -- Landing net, a small, bag-shaped net, used in fishing to take the fish from the water after being hooked. -- Landing stage, a floating platform attached at one end to a wharf in such a manner as to ris…

vy; to reduce in weight; to relieve of part of a load or burden; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden.

A large boat or barge, mainly, used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery. Lighter screw (Mach.), a screw for adjusting the distance between the stones in a grinding mill by raising or lowering the bridgetree.

The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.

of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.

A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.