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单词 unyoke
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unyokev.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈjəʊk/, U.S. /ˌənˈjoʊk/
Etymology: Old English ungeocian (un- prefix2 1b(b)). Compare older Dutch ontjocken, Dutch ontjukken, Middle High German and German entjochen.
1.
a. transitive. To loose (a draught-animal, etc.) from the yoke; to free from harness.
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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.
reflexive.1832 H. Martineau Ella of Garveloch ii. 18 The girls of the family unyoked themselves from the harrow which they were drawing over the..sandy soil.
b. (See yoke n. 4, yoke v.1 2.) Obsolete.
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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.
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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).
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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.
absol. (for refl.).1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xv. xcviii. 388 Too aduantagiously from out our Rubrick they vnyoke, And Canons old and new by them are, too securely, broke.
3. To disconnect, unlink, disjoin. Also figurative.
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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.
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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.
figurative.?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse i. sig. B3 Euer be thy honour spoke, From that place the morne is broke, To that place Day doth vnyoke.1653 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar (rev. ed.) ii. x. 334 It is..but reason such an anger should unyoke and goe to bed with the sunne.
b. figurative. To cease from labour, etc.; to give over work.
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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.
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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).
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