outload

English

Verb

outload (third-person singular simple present outloads, present participle outloading, simple past and past participle outloaded)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, especially military) to load (a watercraft etc.) with supplies or personnel.
    • 1943, United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps, Q.M.C. Historical Studies, page 256:
      It was found that the Division could outload itself almost entirely with the equipment normally found in a division. This was possible either by use of equipment organic to an airborne division or like equipment.
    • 1961, Billy C. Mossman, United States Army in the Korean War: Ebb and Flow:
      The division outloaded over the following three days and sailed for Pusan at mid-morning on the 15th.
    • 2016, Sean Moran, Process Plant Layout:
      The choice of outloading equipment is influenced by the size of ship to be filled and type of material to be handled.
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