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a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xlv. f. lxxvii^v/2 Dischargeden and vnloded the sayd Camellis.

1591 H. Smith Exam. Vsury ii. 34 When he hath loden himselfe like a cart, he shall be vnloden like a cart againe.

1599 E. Wright Voy. Earle of Cumberl. 20 in Certaine Errors Navigation Thre of the greatest..were vnloden of their..marchandise.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xvii. 114 The Indians helped one another to unload and load the mule.

1671 in New Jersey Archives (1880) I. 64 Wheras a certain Vessell or Ship hath..bine unloaden & loaden contrary to an Act of Parliament.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 87 Besides thy daily pain..T' unload the Branches or the Leaves to thin. View more context for this quotation

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. v. 173 To assist him in unloading the Sloop.

1751 C. Labelye Descr. Westm. Bridge 81 The Commissioners..moved the Board..to unload the said Pier.

1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 145 He is trained to lie down when he receives his load and to be unloaded.

1852 Morning Chron. 23 July 1/6 William Grant and I consulted upon where would be the best place at which to unload the trains.

1920 Glasgow Herald 16 Apr. 7 The defender was acting as substitute for an employee of the defender in unloading a boat at Ayr.

1986 Times (Nexis) 27 June She examined the dishes critically as she unloaded the dishwasher.

2012 N.Y. Times 2 Aug. b8 No more running back to check or forgetting to unload the dryer.

1653 J. Taylor Certain Trav. Uncertain Journey 21 If to unloade your Bellies, Nature drive ye.

1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane iv. 124 With sempre-vive Unload their bowels.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 437 Brisk purging..unloads the infarcted viscera.

1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 441 Tartar emetic is rarely used simply to unload the stomach.

1909 Chicago Med. Recorder June 450 The simple enema to unload the bowel may be given with the patient in the sitting or recumbent position.

2011 A. K. Hooper et al. Training your Puppy (ed. 2) 32/2 Such skills come in handy on cold or rainy nights, when you have to take your puppy out for a potty break, but you don't want to have to wait too long for him to unload.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xvi^v Beanes..bounden..are the more redyer to lode & vnlode.

1562 J. Shute tr. A. Cambini in Two Comm. Turcks i. sig. M.iii^v The generall of Modone..commaunded all those of the towne to goe to the hauenes syde, to vnlode the corne, & to bringe it into the towne.

1600–1 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 483 Payd to diuerse labourers for..vnloadinge great tymber.

1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iv. 91 The wealth of an East-Indian Caraque was lately unloden.

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 175 The Man caus'd the Goods to be unloaden and lay'd at the Door.

1780 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 197/1 They unloaded the goods, and carried them off on their shoulders.

1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited iii. 31 The canal here..admitting large vessels to..unload their cargoes.

1884 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 426/2 One..green brig..was unloading shaddocks from Naxos.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 14/3 After we'd unloaded the stuff, carting it all indoors, Pinkey drove off with the truck.

1960 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 21 Dec. 11/2 Be sure you have at least 3 feet of space in front of both appliances so you can load and unload the laundry comfortably.

1994 Daily Mail (Nexis) 27 Apr. 2 Earlier reports suggested the plane had engine trouble and that the passengers were unloaded and reboarded in Taipei before take-off.

2012 J. Lundquist Seeing Cinderella 128 I might as well unload the dishes myself, anyway.

1539 R. Morison tr. Frontinus Strategemes & Policies Warre i. sig. Biii He made a shewe of his army, vpon a hyll not farre of from the ryuer.., commaundynge the hoste not to vnlode in any wyse, nother to laye downe packe ne burden.

1611 T. Heywood Golden Age iv. sig. H3 Downe with your packe, For here must wee vnload.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 130 It went hard with the Coolies to foot it to Beelseer... They unloaded at Noon under a Row of spreading Mangos.

1727 J. Swift Atlas in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. iii. 87 A Pedlar overprest, Unloads upon a Stall to rest.

1788 J. Lemprière Bibliotheca Classica at Hespĕrĭdes Atlas unloaded himself, and placed the burden of the heavens on the shoulders of Hercules.

1861 J. M. Williams Let. 24 Dec. in From that Terrible Field (1981) i. 13 A haversack filled with eatables, and a canteen full of water..made a heavy load, under which we marched to the post of the advanced picket..; arriving there we unloaded ourselves.

1894 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (1900) 28 Unload yourself and pull up a chair.

1918 Living Age 27 Apr. 226/1 Mr. Warlock..stamped his feet and unloaded himself.

1971 O. Davis et al. Purlie i. i. 13 Come in..unload yourself... Set your suitcase down.

2008 A. Golrang Last Flight of Nightingale 126 It wasn't long before he saw Zackaria coming up the mountain. He was wearing a backpack, had a tool bag over one shoulder and two machine guns over the other... He hurried over to Zackaria to help him unload.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1544/2 Sheluers..pulled downe the courts [= carts] as soone as they came to the place where it was needfull to vnlode.

1635 J. Taylor Olde, Old Man sig. B2 The Harrow, Mattock,..Goad, And Whip, and how to Load, and to Vnload.

1767 tr. D. Cranz Hist. Greenland I. iii. i. 150 At every night's lodging they unload, pitch their tent, draw their boat ashore.

1828 E. B. Penny Sketch Customs & Society Mexico iii. 28 The office of some is to unload, whilst others are employed in piling the bales in order.

1893 Royal Comm. Labour: Minutes of Evid. before Group C III. 198/1 in Parl. Papers 1893–4 (C. 6894-IX) XXXIV. 1 The coal porters..declined to unload in January 1891.

1935 M. Bird Jrnl. 30 Nov. in J. B. Bird Trav. & Archaeol. in South Chile (1988) 66 We left the truck at the top of the cliff and unloaded, setting up camp at the head of the canyon.

2015 Toronto Star 29 Nov. a2 After the two trucks were filled, the staff and volunteers followed them to the neighbourhood depots and helped unload.

1678 J. Vernon Compl. Compting-house 148 If a Master of a Ship takes in your Goods, and cannot come up with his Ship to the Wharf or Key to unload [etc.].

1711 Atlas Geographus II. 1068/1 The Mouth of the Loire, where great Vessels bound to Nantes are obliged to unload.

1799 Hull Advertiser 4 May 2/2 The Wasp has come into Leith harbour to unload.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XII ix. 9 The ship From Ceylon, Inde, or far Cathay, unloads.

1855 Poultry Chron. 2 500/1 One of the company's collecting-carts had just arrived, and was unloading.

1865 Visct. Milton & W. B. Cheadle N.-W. Passage by Land vi Whilst it [sc. a barge] was unloading.

1924 Michigan Technic Mar. 7/2 Elevators at the receiving port of Buffalo can store 26,130,000 bushels, while those at other ports where the ships unload can hold 24,525,000.

1955 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 6 Nov. That night he had to drive a customer out to where a circus train was unloading.

2016 Los Angeles Times 1 Jan. c1 The largest container ship ever to unload in North America arrived at the Port of Los Angeles on Dec. 22.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. xx. f. 214^v How much more liberallye God dealeth with vs, gently alluring vs to vnlode our cares into his bosome.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. i. 73 To you Duke Humfrey must vnload his greefe. View more context for this quotation

a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains (1659) i. 133 An excuse to unload your faults upon the Devil.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 613 Reclin'd upon my Breast, thy Grief unload.

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iii. xvi. 296 Now..you may unrip, and unload, all that lies upon your sorrowful heart.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. vii. 186 He unloaded his discontent in such grumblings.

1887 B. Harte Millionaire & Devil's Ford 158 He might unload his gossip because Mamie wouldn't have him.

1939 Farmer's Weekly (S. Afr.) 1 Mar. (Homestead Suppl.) 5/1 The mother should avoid taking the children so far into her confidence that she unloads her troubles upon them.

1978 ‘S. Woods’ Exit Murderer 160 If we succeed in identifying Mr. X I shall unload the whole thing on them [sc. the police].

2013 Nursing Times 3 May Whenever a person tries to abuse us or unload their anger on us, we can each choose to decline or accept the abuse.

1575 P. Beverley Hist. Ariodanto & Ieneura (new ed.) sig. E.vii Then the Duke with sober chere, vnlodes his charged mynde.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 131 If a man should come in the anguish of his soul for some sin, to unload his heart secretly to the bosom of his Minister [etc.].

1696 B. Jenks Liberty of Prayer Asserted iii. 69 To unload my Breast before the Lord, Eases my Oppressed mind, and helps me to that Relief from Above, which the World cannot give.

1720 V. Vanhomrigh Let. in J. Swift Lett. (1766) II. 289 I must..unload my heart, and tell you all its griefs.

1798 W. Colcraft Poetic Pieces (ed. 2) 78 Since then you seem so much inclin'd That I should now unload my mind, With cheerful freedom I'll impart What 'tis that so affects my heart.

1808 W. Scott Marmion iv. xviii. 206 By that strong emotion pressed, Which prompts us to unload our breast, Even when discovery's pain.

1816 J. Wilson City of Plague i. iii. 40 If thou cam'st hither to unload thy soul, Kneel down.

1947 B. Feller Strikeout Story i. 7 One night he unloaded his mind.

1972 R. A. McCracken & M. J. McCracken Reading is Only Tiger's Tail vi. 196 It unloads your mind. If you have a problem just write it down.

2012 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 22 Dec. New and a team of 10 chaplains were hearing about the tragic scene as state troopers and fire fighters unloaded their hearts onto the willing shoulders of ministers.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Solon in Panoplie Epist. 191 Your mynde is neuer vnloaded of disquietnesse.

a1631 J. Donne 50 Serm. (1649) xxii. 190 As when we come to be unloaded of a burden, that that was last laid on, is first taken off.

a1721 J. Sheffield Wks. (1723) II. 207 Antony..having a secret satisfaction in being unloaded of such a friend; who was..sometimes troublesome.

1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 Characters 49/2 When America is better peopled,..the plains unloaded of their vast forests and cultivated.

1892 H. S. Wilcox Great Boo-boo iii. 22 Man is immortal, and like a pilgrim carrying about a corpse, bears his body to the end of his journey, until death unloads him.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 15 Oct. 1/2 A very sagacious tendency to unload himself of mansions rather than to take on new ones.

1922 Amer. Mag. Nov. 59/2 He helps the troubled employee get straightened out, and unloads him of worry.

2007 J. S. Reiley Not walking on Water x. 132 Bob and his bevy of assorted residents at home always appeared ready to unload me of this burden.

1904 W. H. Smith Promoters i. 8 I'm so full of it that I shall burst if I don't unload... You're the only man in all the world that I dare open up the scheme to.

1953 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 30 Oct. 9/2 Council Candidate Joseph G. Choulnard and Mayor Henry Beaudry engaged in a vitriolic debate..and the reports are that Choulnard really unloaded on the mayor.

1978 ‘D. Kyle’ Black Camelot xii. 185 ‘What's the problem with this German? Why won't he unload?’.. ‘He thinks once he comes through..we'll knock him off because he knows too much.’

1984 Miami Herald 30 Mar. 3 b/1 Your letter exhibits a great deal of bottled rage. I strongly suggest that you unload on a counselor.

2000 N. L. Thomas in T. M. Levy Handbk. Attachm. Interventions iii. 102 The child should not become a ‘trapped audience’ for the parent to unload onto.

2014 Nelson (N.Z.) Mail (Nexis) 2 Aug. (Sport section) 9 Asked about his altercation on the final lap, when he looked to have slipped from medal contention, an angry Robertson unloaded.

1601 T. Smith Arte of Gunnerie 87 Euery rammer staffe ought to haue a sponge at the one end, to cleanse the peece with, and a tampion of wood at the other end, to put home the bullet and wad with, in the center of which ought to be a hollow screw wherein the Gunner may screw in a wad hooke to vnloade any peece at his pleasure.

1666 J. Davies tr. E. d'Aranda Hist. Algiers xxxiv. 203 He commanded the Guns to be unloaden, and, instead of Bullets, to be charg'd with bars of Irons.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 82. ⁋8 A Pistol which he knew he had unloaded the Night before.

1734 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Earl of Eglinton (1885) 192 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4575) XLIV. 1 His instructions..concerning unloading the Artillery.

1827 Niles' Weekly Reg. 22 Dec. 268/2 Lucien Bonaparte's son is said to have been killed on board the Hellas, in attempting to unload a pistol.

1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! III. i. 26 ‘You took care to flood the powder?’ ‘Ay, ay, Sir, and to unload the ordnance too.’

1903 Mid-Surrey Times 10 July He commenced to unload the cartridges, when suddenly, as he was approaching Miss Holland, the revolver exploded.

1919 J. B. L. Noel Automatic Pistol 13 When unloading an automatic pistol, after removing the magazine always pull the slide or breech back to eject the cartridge which remains in the chamber.

1966 Muscatine (Iowa) Jrnl. 27 Sept. 12/1 Schnedler was unloading the long rifle bullets from the gun when his thumb slipped off the hammer.

2014 New Yorker 26 May 52/1 Shortly before Deirdre's death, Aguigui had accidentally fired a handgun as he tried to unload it.

1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts v. i. sig. L3 [I can now] Vnloade my great artillerie, and shake..the walls.

1712 R. Blackmore Creation iv. 187 The powder which Destructive Guns explode, And by its Force their hollow Wombs unload.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Discharge To unload a gun.

1770 Information for Archibald Earl of Eglintoun & James Montgomery 22 His unloading his Gun in the Earl's Bowels.

1874 Manch. Weekly Times 27 June Suppl. 205/4 If the editor refuses to publish his ‘pome’, the irate child of genius unloads his gun under the editor's ear, or in some other portion of his anatomy.

1888 Atlanta Constit. 2 June 4/2 A..man..would have no hesitation in unloading a shotgun into the manly shirt front of his dearest friend.

1927 Delphos (Ohio) Daily Herald 30 Apr. Two robbers were injured when the owner of the station unloaded a shotgun at the intruders.

1974 D. M. Lipscomb Noise iv. 83 In Memphis, Tennessee, a young babysitter unloaded a shotgun into a group of six small children.

1996 Sunday Times (Nexis) 25 Feb. The pair would buy 50 rounds of ammunition each and unload the bullets over 10 or 15 minutes into human shadow targets.

2009 J. Patterson & M. Paetro Swimsuit Prol. 3 A holdup guy who panics and unloads his gun into a hapless liquor store clerk.

1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars vi. xxiv. 130 When some brooke..By swelling waters..shouldreth downe his mound, And from his course doth quite himselfe vnloade.

1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia vii. 269 Those streames..spread their springs abrode, And in Timavas flood vnlode.

c1630 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon §42 The river Tale..unloadeth itself into the river Otter.

1743 F. Walsh Antediluvian World vi. 106 Besides all Rivers which unload themselves in the seas.

1928 Flood Control: Hearings before U.S. House of Representatives Flood Control Comm. III. 1313 Take, for instance, the Columbia River, or the Lewis and Clark. It goes through 12 States and unloads itself on Oregon and Washington.

2012 N.Z. Herald: Weekend Herald (Auckland) 17 Nov. d15/1 Port Wakaito is a sleepy little town, where the Waikato River unloads itself into the sea.

1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 135 Unload pewter, drinking beer from pewter pots.

1891 A. Welcker Tales Wild West 68 He unloaded the other bottle of gin into himself.

1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 138 To unload, is to sell out a stock which has been carried for some time.

1876 ‘E. Pinto’ Ye outside Fools! 359 Bulls rush in to aid their philanthropic game of Unloading, as we term it, their expensive wares.

1888 Daily News 16 Feb. 6/2 New York...‘Bears’ selling freely, and ‘bulls’ unloading, combined to depress values.

1893 Nation (N.Y.) 21 Sept. 204/2 The American passion for speculation—that is, for getting hold of something to be unloaded rapidly on somebody else.

1915 Times of India 26 June 6/4 There is a fear that dealers in that city may try and unload a portion of their stocks in this market.

1969 Financial Times 29 Mar. 3/1 With underlying instability turning to the nasty reality of chaos in Pakistan, it is not surprising to find shareholders rushing to unload shares.

1984 New Yorker 19 Mar. 39/2 (caption) Pamela, too, dabbles in the stock market. A little gypsy tells her the best times to buy and the best times to unload.

2008 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Nov. 49 Big investors are keen to balance their portfolios, which means unloading private equity assets.

1884 Boston Jrnl. 15 Mar. 2/3 There is a flavor of reviving an excitement in order to unload oil lands.

1894 14th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 94 It is a speculation to unload a horse at many times his value.

1901 S. Merwin & H. K. Webster Calumet ‘K’ ii. 30 They're going to make a mighty good try at unloading it on him and making him pay for it.

1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xiii. 206 I unloaded that silver mine I had in Colorado.

1929 D. Hammett Dain Curse v. 40 That dinge of yours—Rhino Tingley—was picked up in a hock shop last night trying to unload some jewelry.

1946 Time 25 Mar. 82/3 Many a landlord..has already unloaded a building, at a fat price, on his tenants.

1976 ‘M. Delving’ China Expert v. 56 Tashjian..had only the day before unloaded an extremely dubious Han tomb figurine on an unsuspecting dealer.

2009 W. A. Lederer Ultimate Real Estate Investing Handbk. 98 Private auction houses that are either contracted out by banks..or by other entities, including the property owners themselves, to unload property near or at foreclosure.

1884 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham iii, in Cent. Mag. Dec. 245/2 I was loaded up with a partner that..couldn't do anything, and I unloaded; that's all.

1892 Rep. Secretary of Interior 626 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (52nd Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Exec. Doc. 1, Pt. 5) XVI These routes may have been suggested with the view of getting rid of De Soto and his men, or for the purpose of [printed or] unloading him on some unfriendly tribe, province, or village.

1926 M. West in L. Schlissel Three Plays (1997) 37 Wait until the old gink finds out what she is. Watch him unload her.

1973 E.-J. Bahr Nice Neighbourhood xiii. 139 John wasn't about to be any problem when she had everything set up and wanted to unload him.

1982 C. Watson Whatever's been going on at Mumblesby? xvi. 150 Cork-Bradden's main object was to ‘unload’ the woman on to me, in order to placate his wife.

2016 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 15 Jan. 1 c Brady was so awful that the New England media began to publicly ponder whether it was time to unload the old guy.