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  • verb Present participle of untack.

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Examples

  • Blackmail himself insisted on untacking and stabling his huge black stallion, who showed high spirits by stealing the feed bag and occasionally pushing his master playfully against the wall.

    Villains by Necessity Forward, Eve 1995

  • The knight tethered his horse to an outcropping of stone and began untacking it as the animal cropped the sprigs of wildflowers growing out of the wall.

    Villains by Necessity Forward, Eve 1995

  • "What a wretch!" said one man to himself, who made a large part of his living by the sale of under-garments whose every stitch was an untacking of the body from the soul of a seamstress.

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864

  • "What a wretch!" said one man to himself, who made a large part of his living by the sale of under-garments whose every stitch was an untacking of the body from the soul of a seamstress.

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1 George MacDonald 1864

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