Informal greeting given to royal family member while harnessing animals (6)
I believe the answer is:
yoking
'family member while harnessing animals' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'informal greeting given to royal' is the wordplay.
'informal greeting' becomes 'yo' (I am not sure about the 'informal' bit.).
'given to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'royal' becomes 'king' (a king is royal).
'yo'+'king'='YOKING'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for yoking that I've seen before include "results in enslavement" , "Coupling (horses/oxen) to cart" , "Joining" .)