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1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. i. 5 No, no, mynheer, you must not off-load.

1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting 222 The wagon stuck fast and we had to off-load.

1892 R. H. S. Churchill Men, Mines & Animals 221 There was nothing for it but to ‘off-load’, a most tedious and tiring business.

1912 W. Westrup Land of To-morrow 235 In at the open gate..came a string of ponies..loaded with wool and grain. The natives..proceeded to off-load.

1968 Post (Durban) 4 Feb. 15 A family offloads soon after the lorry had arrived.

1999 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 28 July (Midweek section) 2/5 They told him they would not let him off-load unless he gave them money.

1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years 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.

1889 F. Oates Matabele-land 131 At last we off-loaded a large part of our cargo.

1916 Chambers's Jrnl. June 373/2 At railhead the train is off-loaded into the motor-lorries.

1942 W. S. Churchill Second World War (1951) IV. i. ix. 146 It will..be necessary for the Indomitable squadrons to be off-loaded in Ceylon.

1958 Times 19 Mar. 14/2 Bales were off-loaded.

1972 Daily 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.

1994 H. Holland Born in Soweto v. 86 After safely off-loading their patients at Bara, they conduct a swift frolic among the nurses on duty in The Pit.

1900 B. Mitford Aletta 130 One would think..Government would have plenty to do without off-loading all these insane circulars upon us.

1924 L. Cohen Reminisc. Johannesburg & London 82 Espying a man who had some belief in philanthropy, I—without the least compunction and to my intense relief—off-loaded the whole five hundred at fifteen and six.

1957 Economist 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.

1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby v. 43 A Director who has to offload one of his staff and is embarrassed.

1988 A. Brookner Latecomers iii. 44 He..managed to off-load many of Jessop's paintings at one of the new junk shops that were springing up.

2001 FourFourTwo Sept. 104/3 Lazio were prepared to offload Juan Sebastian Veron because they had secured the services of Italian playmaker Stefano Fiore.

1978 Science 13 Oct. 93 (advt.) Programmable data control units handle I/O interrupt service to offload activities from a main processor.

1982 Computerworld 10 May 85/1 An on-line plotting controller..was designed to order and rasterize graphics data to offload electrostatic plot processing from IBM's 370, 360, 4300 and 30 series computers.

1993 CAD User Nov. 11/3 A network queue manager lets the user offload processing to a remote plotstation.

1997 NetGuide Aug. 23/4 You can offload a lot of the applications that used to be on the desktop and administer them from the server.

1986 Financial Times 1 Nov. (Weekend section) p. xxii/7 Offloading the ball in the tackle, combination play and the bullet pass are all part of the Australian game.

1990 Independent (Nexis) 13 Sept. 39 He drove the ball almost to the Warrington posts before offloading to Alan Tait.

1992 Daily Mirror 3 Oct. 31/5 Centre Craig Innes collected a Schofield bomb and offloaded a delightful pass for the Great Britain stand-off to back up and score.

2002 People (Electronic ed.) 5 May Stocky South African centre Rhys Botha steaming down the left before offloading to winger Johnny Low.