untackle

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ tackle.

Verb

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

1. To unhitch; to unharness.
   • 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:

     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