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outspan verb [ ˈaʊtspan ]

• unharness (an animal) from a wagon.
• "the wagons were drawn up beside the road and the oxen outspanned"

outspan noun

• a place for grazing or camping on a wagon journey.
Origin: early 19th century: from Dutch uitspannen ‘unyoke’.


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