untackle

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verb

To unhitch; to unharness.

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Meanings

verbuntackle (third-person singular simple present untackles, present participle untackling, simple past and past participle untackled)

present singular third person untackles · participle present untackling · participle past untackled · past untackled

  1. To unhitch; to unharness.

    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

    1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC

Origin

From un- + tackle.

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APA

untackle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untackle

MLA

“untackle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untackle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “untackle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untackle.

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