† unliverv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To unload (a ship or its cargo); = liver v. 1b. Cf. deliver v.1 7. Also intransitive (of a ship) to be unloaded, to put off cargo; (of a person) to unload cargo.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > put off or discharge (from) a ship
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to bring aboarda1600
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to take offa1688
1637 W. Slade Acct. 5 Feb. in W. Foster Eng. Factories in India 1637–41 (1912) 10 Haveing unlivered our shipp.
1638 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India (1912) 54 Begann to unliver.
1695 Addition to Law Title Powder Money May in C. J. Hoadly Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1868) IV. 147 All vessells above eight tuns..coming under the command of any of our forts in order to load or unliver, their respective masters before they break bulk shall make their entry in the office in that port.
1717 Acct. Frauds & Abuses Dagenham Breach 88 Several Lightermen, whose Lighters lay Loaden with Chalk,..would not come and unliver where they were directed.
1768 J. Cremer Jrnl. 27 Jan. in R. R. Bellamy Ramblin' Jack (1936) 95 We got safe to Macceno, and unlivered the Cargoe.
a1796 W. Burrell Rep. High Court Admiralty (1885) 140 Tinker told them, if they would not unliver, he would throw their chests overboard.
1808 C. Robinson Rep. High Court Admiralty 6 232 That notice was given to the master.., before the whole cargo was unlivered.
1873 R. Phillimore Comm. Internat. Law III. iv. 754 Where the goods have been once unlivered by order of Court, the whole freight for the voyage is due.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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