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Yoke   /joʊk/   Listen
noun
Yoke  n.  
1.
A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together. "A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke, Untamed, unconscious of the galling yoke." Note: The modern yoke for oxen is usually a piece of timber hollowed, or made curving, near each end, and laid on the necks of the oxen, being secured in place by two bows, one inclosing each neck, and fastened through the timber. In some countries the yoke consists of a flat piece of wood fastened to the foreheads of the oxen by thongs about the horns.
2.
A frame or piece resembling a yoke, as in use or shape. Specifically:
(a)
A frame of wood fitted to a person's shoulders for carrying pails, etc., suspended on each side; as, a milkmaid's yoke.
(b)
A frame worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a goose, to prevent passage through a fence.
(c)
A frame or convex piece by which a bell is hung for ringing it.
(d)
A crosspiece upon the head of a boat's rudder. To its ends lines are attached which lead forward so that the boat can be steered from amidships.
(e)
(Mach.) A bent crosspiece connecting two other parts.
(f)
(Arch.) A tie securing two timbers together, not used for part of a regular truss, but serving a temporary purpose, as to provide against unusual strain.
(g)
(Dressmaking) A band shaped to fit the shoulders or the hips, and joined to the upper full edge of the waist or the skirt.
3.
Fig.: That which connects or binds; a chain; a link; a bond connection. "Boweth your neck under that blissful yoke... Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock." "This yoke of marriage from us both remove."
4.
A mark of servitude; hence, servitude; slavery; bondage; service. "Our country sinks beneath the yoke." "My yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
5.
Two animals yoked together; a couple; a pair that work together. "I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them."
6.
The quantity of land plowed in a day by a yoke of oxen. (Obs.)
7.
A portion of the working day; as, to work two yokes, that is, to work both portions of the day, or morning and afternoon. (Prov. Eng.)
8.
(Chiefly Mach.) A clamp or similar piece that embraces two other parts to hold or unite them in their respective or relative positions, as a strap connecting a slide valve to the valve stem, or the soft iron block or bar permanently connecting the pole pieces of an electromagnet, as in a dynamo.
Neck yoke, Pig yoke. See under Neck, and Pig.
Yoke elm (Bot.), the European hornbeam (Carpinus Betulus), a small tree with tough white wood, often used for making yokes for cattle.


verb
Yoke  v. t.  (past & past part. yoked; pres. part. yoking)  
1.
To put a yoke on; to join in or with a yoke; as, to yoke oxen, or pair of oxen.
2.
To couple; to join with another. "Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers." "Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb."
3.
To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine. "Then were they yoked with garrisons." "The words and promises that yoke The conqueror are quickly broke."


Yoke  v. i.  To be joined or associated; to be intimately connected; to consort closely; to mate. "We 'll yoke together, like a double shadow."





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"Yoke" Quotes from Famous Books



... the land to which you have come you shall find all men lovers of Italy. For there is not one of those that watched her long and grievous struggles, that did not welcome with a heartfelt joy her deliverance, both from foreign yoke and from native tyrants. Here too they know that the example of your illustrious family, the wisdom and moderation of your father not less than the unquenchable valour and bodily strength of your grandfather, his contempt of danger, his devotion to ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 1, 1891 • Various
... self-direction in case of dispute would be possible only on pain of social ruin. I have little enough freedom now, heaven knows; but if I married, why my very thoughts would become the property of another. Thought, emotion, love itself, must pass under the yoke! There would be no nook or corner ...
— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird
... constant students of The Family Herald), and was nothing if not romantic. Both found some one to love them, and both, as it happened, were married on the same day. Their parents had died within a year of each other, and then the orphaned girls had come to terms with their lovers, and accepted a yoke of which they had previously fought shy. Bessy's husband was a middle-aged bookseller in the neighboring town of Thorley, who had admired her thrifty and homely ways, and had not been deterred ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... him before his marriage, treated her with inhuman brutality, and was even known to strike her! In one year the beautiful and dazzling girl, who was followed by a crowd of obedient adorers, could not be recognised in the careworn and unhappy wife. At length, unable longer to support the cruel yoke of such a marriage, she sought a separation. At the first notification of this step, the prince gave way to the most uncontrolled fury,—burst into her chamber, and would infallibly have stabbed her, had he not been seized and removed by force. Mad with rage, he turned his weapon ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various
... by the masters, whose only object was to grow rich. The Indians were tasked far beyond their strength. They were ill-fed, often not fed at all, brutally ill-treated, horribly punished for trying to escape from the hellish yoke, ruthlessly slaughtered at the slightest show of resistance, so that thousands of them perished miserably. This had been the fate of the natives of la Espanola, and there can be no doubt that the Boriquenos had ...
— The History of Puerto Rico - From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation • R.A. Van Middeldyk


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