单词 | unyoke |
释义 | unyokev. 1. a. transitive. To loose (a draught-animal, etc.) from the yoke; to free from harness. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > unyoke unyokec1000 unteam1548 outspan1815 slip1859 c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xlvii. 277 Disiungo, ic ungeocige oððe totwæme. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xviii. xiv Þan þei vnȝoke hem and bringe hem to þe stalle. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Bouem disiunctum curare, an oxe vnyoked. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. i. 328 Our army is disperst..Like youthfull steeres vnyoakt they take their courses, East, weast, north, south. View more context for this quotation 1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age ii. D 3 My swannes I haue vnyoakt. 1628 T. May tr. Virgil Georgicks iii. 98 The weeping Plowman tother Oxe alone Vnyokes. 1681 T. D'Urfey Progr. Honesty i. 1 The Beasts unyok'd from Teams, Ran lowing to the distant Mead. 1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 38 Soon as the Hind, fatigu'd, Unyokes his Team. 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiii. 596 The Chief himself unyokes the panting Steeds. 1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 148 While the coachman was preparing to unyoke his cattle. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. viii. 262 Unyoke the steeds..And set their food before them. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > unyoke > from other animal unyoke1573 1573 [see sense 4a]. a1589 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell (1596) 274 Some..vse to ring them [sc. hogs] at Michaelmas..; they doe vnyoake them soone after Michaelmas. c. To disconnect (the plough) from a draught-animal. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > harness or yoke > unharness unspang1580 unharness1611 unspan1648 unhorse1654 outspan1815 unyoke1821 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. v. 96 It's a finished field with me—I must unyoke the pleugh, and lie down to wait for the dead-thraw. 2. figurative. To liberate, release, deliver from oppression, etc. Also reflexive.In Phillips (1706). ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > set free from servitude or subjection unyokea1387 abjugate1730 unsubjugate1834 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 367 Þo was..Italy unȝoked and delyvered of þe ȝokke of Constantynnoble. 1593 B. Barnes Parthenophil & Parthenophe 3 So whiles shee sleightly gloas'd, with her new pray, Mine hartes eye..Vnyoak't himselfe, & closely scap't away. 1638 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione (new ed.) 5 When British Isles..From sad oppression had unyok'd their necks. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. Concl. 61 The property of Truth is,..to unyoke & set free the minds and spirits of a Nation. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Ffff/3 To unyoke himself out of Bondage, or Slavery. 3. To disconnect, unlink, disjoin. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > disjoin, disunite, or disconnect unlime?c1225 unjoin1340 discouplec1440 disannex1459 disjoin1483 uncouplea1533 unjoint1565 sejoin1568 sejungate1578 unknit1580 disjoint1582 unlinkc1585 uncombine1595 disunite1598 sejunge1598 discombine1603 injoint1603 dislink1610 unthreada1616 unyokea1616 sejugate1623 disconnect1758 dijunge1768 unconnect1796 disally1864 a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 167 And shall these hands..So newly ioyn'd in loue..Vnyoke this seysure, and this kinde regreete? 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 89 The milkman..With sudden sink unyokes the clinking pail. 1862 A. Trollope N. Amer. I. 109 At the rapids the large rafts are, as it were, unyoked, and divided into small portions. 4. a. absol. To remove the yoke from an animal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (intransitive)] > unyoke unyoke1573 outspan1801 unspan1914 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 13v Let hoggs be roung, both olde & young... No mast vpon Oke, no lenger vnyoke. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 593 When thou [sc. the husbandman] doest unyoke and give over thy daies worke. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion i. 13 Here I'le vnyoke awhile, and turne my steeds to meat. 1794 J. Donaldson Gen. View Agric. Carse of Gowrie 24 The ploughmen..are in the stable by five o'clock, and unyoking about ten, are employed in cutting grass. b. figurative. To cease from labour, etc.; to give over work. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > work at specific times or periods [verb (intransitive)] > stop work to shut (one's) shop-windowc1478 to shut up one's shop1560 unyoke1594 to put up the shutters1877 to shut down1877 strike1890 stand1892 to knock off1916 1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night C iij b To nothing more aptly can I compare the working of our braines after we haue vnyoakt and gone to bed. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 52 Who buildes stronger then a Mason, a Shipwright, or a Carpenter. Clowne. I, tell me that and vnyoke . View more context for this quotation 1889 J. H. Skrine Mem. E. Thring 225 I am hastening to unyoke. But I must not do so till I account for something still left unsaid. Derivatives unˈyoking n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > yoke > yoking or unyoking yoking1572 unyoking1667 outspan1821 inyoking1842 spanning1874 inspan1879 inspanning1879 1667 Miége ii. s.v. An unyoaking, or Unyoking. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 221 The unyoking of the oxen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.c1000 |
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