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.

Related terms

• loadout