Definition of "unhitch" []

• To release from or as if from a hitch; unfasten. (verb-transitive)

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• "By the time I had gone far enough I was sure I was lost, I did unhitch from the sled and got on Dan, a little bronco that was pretty smart."
• ""They did not give me time to unhitch my oxen," he said."
• "We assumed it was designed to work like a drive-thru for automobiles: Place order, pay, get food, all without having to unhitch the spray skirts."