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  • noun Plural form of unloader.

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Examples

  • Talking of coals, on board the big ship, out of which great white bales, strapped with bars of iron, were being pulled up by machinery, and caught and flung about by the "unloaders," there was a man whose business it seemed to be to look after the fires, and who seemed also to have taken a roll in the coal-hole for pleasure; and I saw him find a tin basin and a square of soap, and a decent rough towel to wash his face and hands, such as would have been reckoned luxurious in a dormitory at Snuffy's.

    We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • Have lost stands here before, and had to hide behind trees or hit the deck for the crazy shotgun unloaders.

    Get AWAY from me! 2009

  • Have lost stands here before, and had to hide behind trees or hit the deck for the crazy shotgun unloaders.

    Get AWAY from me! 2009

  • The American operations officers and the German unloaders were both long gone when he wandered back out of the terminal after some hot chocolate and a quick tour of the wonders of Tempelhof.

    Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

  • Loaders and unloaders, supervised by teenage Army privates, slipped around going uphill and down inside a fuselage sitting at a twenty-five-degree angle.

    Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

  • The Germans were setting up labor companies to find and hire loaders and unloaders at the ten American and British airfields in western Germany and Berlin.

    Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

  • Many of the loaders and unloaders had been Nazis, some of them fairly prominent, but their German comrades did not betray them to occupiers.

    Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

  • By German standards, though, the loaders and unloaders were an elite, being paid totally in Westmarks and getting free hot meals every workday.

    Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

  • The men are signaling to passing cargo trucks that they are available to work for the day either as loaders or unloaders.

    Driving in Mexico 2006

  • The men are signaling to passing cargo trucks that they are available to work for the day either as loaders or unloaders.

    Driving in Mexico 2006

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