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unyoke
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To release something from a yoke or harness. 2 (context transitive English) To disconnect, unlink. 3 (context transitive English) To liberate, deliver from oppression. 4 (context intransitive English) To unyoke an animal. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unyoke \Un*yoke"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + yoke.] To loose or free from a yoke. ``Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses.'' --Shak. To part; to disjoin; to disconnect. --Shak.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. remove the yoke from; "unyoke the cow" [ant: yoke ]
Usage examples of unyoke.
He told too of how the top gallery of the old Royal used to be packed night after night, of how one night an Italian tenor had sung five encores to Let me like a Soldier fall, introducing a high C every time, and of how the gallery boys would sometimes in their enthusiasm unyoke the horses from the carriage of some great prima donna and pull her themselves through the streets to her hotel.
They quickly aided the mass of commoners to pull wagons into place, unyoke cattle, and lift the heavy tents on poles.
C every time, and of how the gallery boys would sometimes in their enthusiasm unyoke the horses from the carriage of some great prima donna and pull her themselves through the streets to her hotel.
The driver unyoked the oxen from the cart and allowed them to roam free in that green and peaceful place whose freshness was so inviting, if not to persons as enchanted as Don Quixote, then to those as capable and clever as his squire, who pleaded with the priest to allow his master out of the cage for a while, because if they did not let him out, his prison would not be as clean as decency demanded for a knight like his master.
It cut me to the very soul to see My oxen, noble creatures, when the knave Unyoked them from the plough.
The galloways were unyoked, the smith was found, and soon the music of his bellows was loud in the quiet evening.
Of his personal history it was known only that he had emigrated from Wisconsin in 1852, that he had calmly unyoked his ox teams at Big Flume, then a trackless wilderness, and on the opening of a wagon road to the new mines had built a wayside station which eventually developed into the present hotel.
Caesar even put on races with unyoked horses ridden bareback by postilions.
At the rapids the large rafts are, as it were, unyoked, and divided into small portions, which go down separately.
The unyoked draft animals fouled their opposite numbers in neighboring teams, and one vehicle upset because its driver did not have enough room to maneuver around a tree.
CHAPTER II A FRIEND IN REQUEST It was the hour of the unyoking of men.
CHAPTER II A FRIEND IN REQUEST It was the hour of the unyoking of men.
Carl and Jeffers had to maneuver them into place, yoke and unyoke, check joints and seals, and be sure nothing snagged on an outcropping of rock or jagged ice.