9-Letter Words with M,E,R,L,I,N,S

• To deploy an artillery piece for firing (ie, to detach it from its limber).

• (by extension) To clumsily put into employ a large weapon or object.

• To unsling something, as a backpack, carried on the body with a strap; to bring something carried into the hands for use.

• To stretch muscles, limbs, etc., that have been cramped or unused for some time.

• avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill

• one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel

• resembling the new moon in shape

• become normal or return to its normal state

• make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard

• the track on which trams or streetcars run

• a singer of folk songs

• a performer in a minstrel show

• celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels