Crossword clues for unship
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unship \Un*ship"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + ship.]
To take out of a ship or vessel; as, to unship goods.
(Naut.) To remove or detach, as any part or implement, from its proper position or connection when in use; as, to unship an oar; to unship capstan bars; to unship the tiller.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context nautical English) To unload cargo from a ship or other vessel 2 (context nautical English) To remove an oar or mast from its normal position
Usage examples of "unship".
At anchor in Cape Cod harbor, unshipped the shallop and drew her on land to mend and repair her.
November, we unshipped our shallop and drew her on land to mend and repair her, having been forced to cut her down, in bestowing her betwixt the decks, and she was much opened, with the peoples lying in her, which kept us long there: for it was sixteen or seventeen days before the Carpenter had finished her.
Hanse called, unshipping the carefully balanced and pleasantly sloshy goatskin bags from the onager even while he imitated him.
When he announced the chasm, Chex unshipped the ladder and pushed it out over the void.
The night was warm and no shelter was needed, although, as with most Saxon warships, it was possible to unship the light mast and drop the tip of it into the forked jackstaff at the prow.
That terrible unshipping and reshipping is a sore burden to the unaccustomed traveller.
His men were arming the ship carefully, stowing her dragon-plates of steel in the hold where they could be unshipped quickly, fitting beckets to the gunwales to hold crossbows and quarrels, chipping rocks for the mules.
By the time Calis had taken a third pull, de Loungville had unshipped the second set of oars and was pulling along in time with Calis.
Unship the stuns'l-boom iron and touch up the ends of the stop-cleats, Mr Lamb, if you please'.
The Greek fire apparatus had been unshipped bodily from the half-sunk galley, with immense care not to crack or bend any of its pipes, and had been carried carefully stowed in the hold of the Fafnisbane, a man watching it on Ordlaf's orders day and night to warn of any leak or scrap of fire.
Ilias and Giliead got the gig back aboard as the rest of the crew scrambled down to unship the oars.
He immediately covered his guns with light sails, unshipped and stowed his swivels, and hoisted an English flag.
Unship the Lucayo twins and the Rosso boy that they sent from Port-au-Prince.
She unshipped a sigh that sounded like the wind going out of a rubber duck.
At the edge of the police lane, both cars unshipped cranes and magnalifted the junk over the divider barrier onto the one-hundred-foot-wide service strip bordering the police lane.