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▪ I. unˈyoked, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8.]
Not provided with or subjected to a yoke; not wearing a yoke. Also fig.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 93 Now hunt with dog, vnyoked hog. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. ii. 220, I know you all, and will a-while vphold The vnyoak'd humor of your idlenesse. c1611Chapman Iliad vi. 321 That..we may Twelue vn⁓yok't Oxen of a yeare, in this thy Temple slaye. 1697Dryden æneis vi. 58 Sev'n Bullocks, yet unyok'd, for Phœbus chuse.
▪ II. unˈyoked, ppl. a.2
[un-2 4 b, 8, or f. unyoke v.]
Set free from the yoke. Also fig.
1700A. Philips Pastorals ii. ad. fin., With songs the jovial hinds return from plough; And unyok'd heifers, loitering homeward, lowe. 1751W. Whitehead Hymn to Nymph of Bristol Spring 146 The panting Swain..at evening led His unyok'd heifers to the common stream. 1888A. H. Smith Cat. Gems Brit. Mus. 191 Rustic with yoke of oxen,..the oxen unyoked from cart and lying down before it. |