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1760 Trial G. Sackville 113 How long was it, after you got upon the heath, before you opened the first English battery? How long did you take in unlimbering and repairing?

1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 177 Unlimbering, or Coming into Action.

1886 Jrnl. Mil. Service Inst. U.S. 7 417 Unlimbering and limbering is accomplished by the removal or insertion of a pin.

1904 Provisional Instr. Maneuvers (U.S. War Dept.) in Rep. Adjutant-Gen. State Mich. 1906–8 (1909) 248 Artillery which has the range can endanger the unlimbering of hostile artillery within 3,500 yards.

1971 P. Stuart Edward Gibbon Wakefield in New Zealand viii. 103 The gradual unlimbering of the provincial machinery of government throughout New Zealand provided Wakefield with a new opportunity.

2015 D. L. Shultz & S. L. Mingus Second Day at Gettysburg xii. 242 The heavy enemy traffic and the unlimbering of fresh batteries in the distant west.