vbl. sb. [f. UNLADE v.] The action of unloading or discharging.

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1428–9.  Rec. St. Mary at Hill, 70. Also paid … for þe caryage & ladyng & vnladyng, ix d.

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1627.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Navy of Land Ships, Wks. (1630), 82/1. The often returnes, lading and vnlading of this ship.

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1691.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2656/2. That no such … Vessel shall be above Ten days in Unlading.

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1726.  Leoni, Alberti’s Archit., I. 75 b. For the more easy unlading of the Shipping.

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1818.  Sporting Mag., II. 161. Hogarth has already given the picture of the unlading of a stage coach.

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1849.  Eastwick, Dry Leaves, 210. Affording great facilities for the unlading or shipment of cargoes.

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  b.  attrib., as unlading place, port, time.

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1611.  Florio, Sbarco,… [an] vnlading place for ships.

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1681.  Cal. Treas. Bks., 7. The books of the unlading port.

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1755.  Magens, Insurances, I. 48. The customary unlading Places in that Port.

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1884.  J. Parker, Apost. Life, III. 61. We must have landing places, and unlading times,… in life.

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