yak
yak¹
Definition
yak (yak)
noun pl. yaks or yak
a stocky, long-haired wild ox (Bos grunniens) of Tibet and central Asia, often domesticated as a beast of burden and for its milk, meat, etc.
Etymology: < Tibet g-yag, male yak
yak²
Definition
☆ yak (yak; also, for n. 2, yäk)
intransitive verb yakked, yak′·king
to talk much or idly; chatter
Etymology: echoic
noun
- idle or voluble talk
- a loud laugh, esp. as audience response to comedy
- a joke or comic bit that evokes such a laugh
yak′·ker noun
yak
Usage Examples
Possessives
- milk: We're going to eat nothing but mutton and drink nothing but the sour, fizzy, local brew made from yak's milk.
Converse of object
- kill: It was here in 1974 that a yeti supposedly killed three yaks and attacked a Sherpa woman.
- have: From this day we no longer had porters - we had yaks.
- milk: We watched them milk Yaks for a bit before having a breakfast of unleavened bread, cheese and butter tea.
- raise: The main activities include potato and buckwheat cultivation, and raising yaks for wool, meat, manure and transport.
- bring: Messner also brought some yaks over from the Himalayas which now live on a small farm at the castle.
Converse of subject
- accompany: Tomorrow, we start our work week with a hike up the valley accompanied by 38 yaks and 14 yak drivers.
Modifies a noun
- herder: Camp will be in a stone shelter used by the yak herders.
- dung: In the middle is a stove where they burn the yak dung.
- pasture: Rosy Pipits were numerous in the damp yak pastures.
- reproduction: The document is taken from " Recent advances in yak reproduction " edited by XX Zhao and RC Zhang.
- butter: Now, reserve staff are often invited into locals ' homes for cups of steaming yak butter tea.
- track: You would think that with Richie Warren of Fuel on the yak track, you would learn about how the film soundtrack was changed.
Noun used with modifier
- grazing: Alpine pastures on the high ranges of the snow-capped Great Himalayas are used for grazing yaks in the summer months.
