v. [UN-2 4 b.] trans. To unyoke.
1548. Elyot, Interiungo, to vnteeme the horses, that they maie reste.
1592. Warner, Alb. Eng., VIII. xlii. 158. Our Cattell vnto stronger draughts we … would vnteame.
1667. Jer. Taylor, Gt. Exemp. (ed. 4), II. 310. Since Justice and Authority laid by the Rods and Axes as soon as the Sun unteamed his chariot.
1675. Cotton, Scoffer Scoft, 81. Let the Hours unteam thy Horses.
absol. 1662. J. Davies, trans. Olearius’ Voy. Ambass., 413. The Muscovian Ambassador having cudgell’d one of the Waggoners, all the rest would unteam and return homewards.
