The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disembark \Dis`em*bark"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembarked; p. pr. & vb. n. Disembarking.] [Pref. dis- + embark: cf. F. d['e]sembarquer.] To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.
Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers.
--Shak.
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vb. (en-past of: disembark)
Usage examples of "disembarked".
The colonists disembarked, and a fire was soon lighted under a clump of trees, among the branches of which Cyrus Harding and his companions could, if it was necessary, take refuge for the night.
Charmion was obviously fond of her aunt and called out a stream of greetings as Marmion disembarked her launch.
For there were more robed figures huddling in the miserable knot of the disembarked passengers.
About 10 percent of the colonial population was German-speaking, the first wave of German immigrants having disembarked at Philadelphia in August 1683.
The first to arrive—twenty-three on a French ship in 1654—had disembarked at New Amsterdam (later, New York) after being expelled by the Portuguese from Brazil.
On May 25, they disembarked under Generals William Howe, Henry Clinton, and John Burgoyne, who arrived on the warship Cerberus.
Two days later, on the night of the eighteenth, the enemy crossed the Hudson in two divisions (6,000 men) under Lord Cornwallis and disembarked with their cannon under the palisades at a place called Closter Dock above Fort Lee.
The body was now markedly different to the image contained in his passport flek the day he disembarked from the Yaku.
Had you disembarked there, you would have been tortured until you surrendered yourselves to possession.
They had disembarked on the island, and it was almost impossible to get at the five who survived.
She brought an unusual number of passengers, some of whom remained on deck to scan the picturesque panorama of the town, while the greater part disembarked in the boats, and landed on the quay.
It was really worth considering why this certainly very amiable and complacent person, whom he had first met at Suez, had then encountered on board the Mongolia, who disembarked at Bombay, which he announced as his destination, and now turned up so unexpectedly on the Rangoon, was following Mr.
It was cooler after the sun set, and when he disembarked onto the soft dunes, Rafel heard only lifeless silence and the rushing of wind-scattered dust.
She disembarked from the airvan and went forward with tentative steps, faster than the Tlulaxa could accompany her.
Which is how it came to pass that, when I disembarked from the lighter that had brought me and the nuns in from the galleon, the first thing my foot touched was silver—an omen of what was to happen to me later, which in turn, God willing, is only a foreshadowing of the adventure that awaits us ten.