Anna Karenina vocabulary

20 horse related terms (carriages, anatomy, breeds, tack)

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20 [equestrian] words
top boots
shaft-horse
piebald
unyoke
dogcart
withers
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unyoke

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Definition:
1. To loose or free from a yoke. (equestrian)
2. To part; to disjoin; to disconnect.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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5. (intransitive) To cease from labour.

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They unyoked the horses and galloped after them.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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Other: Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter?
Clown: Ay, tell me that, and unyoke.
Other: Marry, now I can tell!

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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