off-load

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English

Verb

off-load (third-person singular simple present off-loads, present participle off-loading, simple past and past participle off-loaded)

  1. Alternative spelling of offload
    • 1962 August, R. C. Riley, “The Modernisation of the Plymouth area—II”, in Modern Railways, page 121:
      It handles two scheduled trains daily, which include loaded wagons of coal off-loaded from coastal vessels.