untackle
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untackle (third-person singular simple present untackles, present participle untackling, simple past and past participle untackled)
- To unhitch; to unharness.
- 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC:
- For charges so little much quiet is won,
If strongly and handsomely all things be done;
But use to untackle them once in a day,
To rub and to lick them , to drink and to play