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, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →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