Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To unhitch; unharness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb colloq. To unbitch; to unharness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb colloquial To unhitch; to unharness.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ tackle

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Examples

  • The gipsy man gave a little call, as he backed his cart into the quarry, and an elderly man came out to help him untackle.

    The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003

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