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English
Etymology
From un- + tackle.
Verb
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; 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