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untackling

untackling is the present participle and gerund of untackle.

Meaning of untackle

Verb

untackle (third-person singular simple present untackles, present participle untackling, simple past and past participle 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 play1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […]...

Questions about untackling

What is untackling the present participle and gerund of?
Untackling is the present participle and gerund of untackle.

Words near untackling in the dictionary

  1. untacked
  2. untacking
  3. untackle
  4. untackled
  5. untackles
  6. untackling
  7. untacks
  8. untacky
  9. untact
  10. untactful
  11. untactfully

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Adapted from Wiktionary: untackling (page history and authors); untackle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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