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1648.  Hexham, II. Ongeladen, Vnloaded.

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1753.  Stewart’s Trial, 273. The unloaded gun.

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1800.  Asiat. Ann. Reg., Misc. Tr., 245/1. Water … sufficient to give passage to large unloaded boats.

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1840.  Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., III. 89/2. This … would only be what M. Pambour properly calls the ‘unloaded friction.’

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1871.  ‘M. Legrand,’ Cambr. Freshm., 181. Shooting with unloaded pistols.

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1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 11. Holding out the poker or even the unloaded hand at arm’s length.

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  transf.  1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Miner’s Right (1899), 83. ‘You’re armed, of course?’ I touched my left hip significantly…. ‘Too long in the country to travel unloaded.’

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