Crossword clues for outspan
The Collaborative International Dictionary
outspan \out*span"\, v. t. & i. [D. uitspannen.] To unyoke or disengage, as oxen from a wagon; to unharness (a horse). [S. Africa]
outspan \out"span\, n.
The act of outspanning.
A place where outspanning is done; Hence: An encampment.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context South Africa English) The place where one outspans. 2 An area on a farm kept available for travellers to rest and refresh their animals vb. (context South Africa English) To release oxen from harness.
WordNet
v. remove the yoke or harness from; "unspan the draft animals" [ant: inspan]
[also: outspanning, outspanned]
Usage examples of "outspan".
And now, Baas, I have had enough of this, and should like to return to our outspan and examine those new oxen.
So when Outspan and Derek decided, while Ray was out in the jacks, that their group needed a new direction they both thought of Jimmy.
Jimmy, Derek, Deco, Billy, James and Dean, Outspan was in love with Imelda.
Four mates of himself, Outspan and Derek leaned against the back wall.
At the end of this time, however, just as they were approaching the Red House, where Frank Muller had obtained the pass from the General on the previous day, one of the Boers rode up and told them, roughly enough, that they were to outspan at the house, where they would find some food.
We leapt down and began to outspan them, getting the yokes off as quickly as we could--no easy job, I can tell you, both because of the mess in which they were and for the reason that it must be carried out literally under fire, since the flashes were falling all about us.
Further, I was pressed and, desiring to reach a certain outspan before night fell, could only give about an hour to the quest and when it failed was obliged to get on.
The oxen gave out as we were coming down, and we had to outspan about five miles off.
And then that stupid old Kafir and Jan over the outspan money, and our none of us being able to find any change.
One might have thought Jan had never heard of outspan money, instead of its being a familiar and heating subject with him.
April and, trekking to the Church Square, proceeded to outspan there, as was usual in the Seventies.
The night passed somehow without anything happening, and at dawn we halted for a while to water the oxen, which we did with buckets, and let them eat what grass they could reach from their yokes, since we did not dare to outspan them.
All that day we blundered on, thrashing the weary cattle that at every halt tried to lie down, and by nightfall came to the outspan near to the house called the Temple, where we had met the Kaffirs returning from the diamond fields.
I was commandeered to accompany this man to his first outspan, a place with good water about twelve miles from the camp, where he proposed to remain for the night.
I expected that we should reach this outspan by three or four in the afternoon, which would give me time to walk back before sunset.