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inspanned

inspanned is the simple past and past participle of inspan.

Meaning of inspan

Verb

inspan (third-person singular simple present inspans, present participle inspanning, simple past and past participle inspanned)

  1. (transitive) To yoke (oxen).
    • There was no time to inspan the oxen[…]1917, H. Rider Haggard, Finished, Kessinger, published 2004, →ISBN, page 39
  2. To bring or force into service.

Questions about inspanned

What is inspanned the simple past and past participle of?
Inspanned is the simple past and past participle of inspan.

Words near inspanned in the dictionary

  1. insourcing
  2. insp
  3. insp.
  4. inspake
  5. inspan
  6. inspanned
  7. inspanning
  8. inspans
  9. inspeak
  10. inspeaking
  11. inspeaks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inspanned (page history and authors); inspan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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