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Unyoke   Listen
verb
Unyoke  v. t.  
1.
To loose or free from a yoke. "Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses."
2.
To part; to disjoin; to disconnect.





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"Unyoke" Quotes from Famous Books



... jetty, and there his carriage is waiting to take him to the house, where he and his have kept swashbuckler courts, with troops of fine gentlemen debtors from London. The Manxmen forget everything except that his dignity is reduced. They unyoke his horses, get into his shafts, drag him through the streets, toss up their caps and cry hurrah! hurrah! One seems to see the Duke sitting there with his arms folded, and his head on his breast. He can't help ...
— The Little Manx Nation - 1891 • Hall Caine
... to the top of the rise, for, of course, there was no road, and the Kaffirs were beginning to unyoke the hungry oxen, Rachel, who was riding with her father, sprang from her horse and ran to it to help her mother to descend. She was now a tall young woman, full of health and vigour, strong and straightly shaped. ...
— The Ghost Kings • H. Rider Haggard
... of this apparition in armor, said to him, "Please your worship, for charity's sake, senor, let me unyoke the mules and place myself in safety along with them before the lions are turned out; for if they kill them on me I am ruined for life, for all I possess is ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester


Words linked to "Unyoke" :   animal husbandry, unhitch


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