[UN-1 8.] Not provided with or subjected to a yoke; not wearing a yoke. Also fig.

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1573.  Tusser, Husb. (1878), 93. Now hunt with dog, vnyoked hog.

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1596.  Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., I. ii. 220. I know you all, and will a-while vphold The vnyoak’d humor of your idlenesse.

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c. 1611.  Chapman, Iliad, VI. 321. That … we may Twelue vnyok’t Oxen of a yeare, in this thy Temple slaye.

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1697.  Dryden, Æneis, VI. 58. Sev’n Bullocks, yet unyok’d, for Phœbus chuse.

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