v. [UN-2 3.] trans. To take out of stowage; to clear (a hold, etc.) of the articles stowed in it.
1726. Shelvocke, Voy. round World, 75. Half the hold must have been unstow’d to get at them.
1745. P. Thomas, Jrnl. Anson’s Voy., 106. We … unstow’d the Anchor, to be in Readiness.
1800. Colquhoun, Comm. Thames, ii. 59. The Lumpers unstowed the casks in the bold.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. x. 105. We have to unstow the hold, and deposit its contents in the store house.
1891. Labour Commission Gloss., Unstowing or Breaking out, the act of conveying the goods packed in a ship from the place occupied whilst travelling to the square immediately under the hatchway.
fig. 1748. Smollett, Rod. Rand., xli. When they found my hold unstowed, they went all hands to shooling and begging.
