What is "unhitch"

Usage examples of "unhitch".

He unhitched his blaster and blaster strap and recircled it about his naked waist.

He untethered her animal, passed the single rein back up into her hand, then unhitched and mounted the other beast himself.

Belly and a dozen of his younger relatives-sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, and cousins-came to help Whandall and the Ropewalkers unhitch their animals and set up camp.

He found a number of pole travoises, from which the animals had been unhitched in the first panic when the landing craft had been coming down.

He slung the backpack to the ground and unhitched the two sets of crampons, steel skeletons that would attach to the bottoms of our boots.

Once in position, the horses were unhitched and led back to camp, and the war machines securely anchored to the ground with ropes and stakes.

He had been tied to some sort of travois, which was in the process of being unhitched from a train of long-legged, lean horses.

Paul unhitched his horse he saw a knot of people surge into the alley from the front of the inn.

Wilkins and the first knight began unhitching the horses, then rearranged the baggage, distributing the necessary items among the riders and abandoning the rest along with the coach, which they hid in a bower of young maple saplings and wild ivy.

The driver tossed his gathered reins out on the ground, gaped and stretched complacently, drew off his heavy buckskin gloves with great deliberation and insufferable dignity--taking not the slightest notice of a dozen solicitous inquires after his health, and humbly facetious and flattering accostings, and obsequious tenders of service, from five or six hairy and half-civilized station-keepers and hostlers who were nimbly unhitching our steeds and bringing the fresh team out of the stables--for in the eyes of the stage-driver of that day, station-keepers and hostlers were a sort of good enough low creatures, useful in their place, and helping to make up a world, but not the kind of beings which a person of distinction could afford to concern himself with.

Here Goldmoon instructed Clearwing and Starflower to unhitch the cart horse and load it with her belongings.

When Night falls, the Drivers unhitch and out-span their Teams, and make fires, and stay up drinking well past the Culminations of the later Stars, for Mason and Dixon, attending the Clock, the Plumb-line, the eternal Heavens, can hear them in dispute, often upon some point of religion.

Edge and Yount took the job of driving the wagons one by one to the ship's side and there unhitching the horses, while the dockhands attached grapple cables between wagon and boom, and the donkeymen on deck worked a steam capstan to haul each wagon up and swing it inboard.

He moved his hands with great care to his belt buckle, unhitched, and let the gun belt fall.

They were then unhitched, the coal car manhandled onto the basket, and the basket hauled to the surface.