| 单词 | unhitch |
| 释义 | unˈhitch, v.
[un-2 4 b.]
1. trans. To detach (from a practice).
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. i. i. 10 From which terrible griping..nothing can vn-hitch them but deaths flesh-hooke.
2. To detach (a horse, etc.) by undoing a fastening:
a. From a vehicle, plough, or the like.
1706Stevens i, Destravar, to unhitch. 1862B. Taylor Home & Abroad Ser. ii. ii. iv. 91 While the younger children unhitched and watered the horses. 1884J. Gilmour Mongols i. 2 My Chinese carter,..unhitching his two mules [from the cart], went off and left me in the encampment.
absol.1887I. R. Lady's Ranche Life Montana 150 So he helped me to unhitch, and I led the horses, while he dragged the buggy across.
b. From something to which its head is tied.
1883Harper's Mag. Aug. 386/2, I went out and unhitched the horse, and drove straight home.
3. To detach or unfasten (a thing).
1876G. J. Whyte-Melville Katerfelto xxviii. 315 He un⁓hitched his bridle from the garden palings. 1891Cotes 2 Girls on Barge 27 With silent alacrity I unhitched the lamp. 1901Westm. Gaz. 24 Oct. 7/3 A detachment of the men unhitched the long ladders. |
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