unlade Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb take the load off (a container or vehicle)
    offload; unload.
    • unload the truck
    • offload the van

WordNet


Un*lade" transitive verb
Etymology
1st un- + lade.
Definitions
  1. To take the load from; to take out the cargo of; as, to unlade a ship or a wagon.
    The venturous merchant . . . Shall here unlade him and depart no more. Dryden.
  2. To unload; to remove, or to have removed, as a load or a burden; to discharge.
    There the ship was to unlade her burden. Acts. xxi. 3.

Webster 1913