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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



... depart back again to windy Ilios; but dusk came too soon, and that in chief hath now saved the Argives and the ships beside the beach of the sea. So let us now yield to black night, and make our supper ready; unyoke ye from the chariots your fair-maned horses, and set fodder beside them. And from the city bring kine and goodly sheep with speed; and provide you with honey-hearted wine, and corn from your houses, and ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer (Lang, Leaf, Myers trans.)
... informed me that the ridges ceased at about a mile and a quarter; in consequence of which I turned to the north-east, but the bullocks were now completely worn out and refused to pull. To save them, therefore, it became necessary to unyoke and to drive them to water, and as Mr. Browne felt satisfied he could lead the way to the creek, I adopted that plan, and telling the men with the sheep to follow on our tracks, we left the drays, at 6 p.m., taking two of the men only with us, and ...
— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt


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