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off-load, v. orig. S. Africa.|ˈɒfˌləʊd, ˈɔː-; ˌɒfˈləʊd ˌɔː-|
[f. off- 1 + load v., after Du. afladen.]
trans. To unload. Also transf. and fig., to discard, get rid of, relieve oneself of (a person or thing). Hence off-ˈloading vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (ed. 2) I. 5 No, no, mynheer, you must not off-load. 1850R. G. Cumming Five Yrs. Hunter's Life S. Afr. II. xx. 82 Having off-loaded my waggon, I handed it over to Mr. Arnott, the resident blacksmith, to undergo repairs. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting 222 The wagon stuck fast and we had to off-load. 1889F. Oates Matabele-Land 131 At last we off-loaded a large part of our cargo. 1896Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 5/1 The rules are that dynamite must be off-loaded within twenty-four hours after arrival [at Johannesburg]. 1903Kipling Five Nations 208 Ubique means ‘Off-load your guns’—at midnight in the rain! 1916Chambers's Jrnl. June 373/2 At railhead the train is off-loaded into the motor-lorries. 1942W. S. Churchill Second World War (1951) IV. i. ix. 146 It will..be necessary for the Indomitable squadrons to be off-loaded in Ceylon. 1949Sun (Baltimore) 21 Feb. 4/3 The machinery was off-loaded and shipped on to Nottingham by railway. 1950Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 30 Jan. 1/5 Salvage team personnel have completed offloading the Big Mo's ammunition and all beach gear has been placed. 1952C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil's Aeneid v. 113 They enrolled the women for the colony, off-loaded the men who wanted To stay there. 1957Economist 2 Nov. 429/1 The vehicle industry finds that it has to offload more of its rising production of cars and lorries on to the home market. 1958Times 19 Mar. 14/2 Bales were off-loaded. Ibid., Cotton was stolen from the Liverpool Docks in the off-loading of 12 different ships. 1968M. Woodhouse Rock Baby v. 43 A Director who has to offload one of his staff and is embarrassed. 1971C. Bonington Annapurna South Face iii. 30 This period being taken up with off⁓loading, Customs clearance and the journey across India. 1972Daily Tel. 1 Apr. 3/2 It arrived at Heathrow as mishandled luggage, having been wrongly off-loaded in Rome from a flight from Australia to London. 1977J. McClure Sunday Hangman ii. 17 [He] side-stepped into the shadow of an off-loading Coke truck. |