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yoke (yōk)

noun pl. yokes or yoke

  1. a wooden frame or bar with loops or bows at either end, fitted around the necks of a pair of oxen, etc. for harnessing them together
  2. a pair of animals harnessed together a yoke of oxen
    1. a device symbolizing a yoke, as an arch of spears, under which the conquered were forced to pass in ancient times
    2. any mark or symbol of bondage or servitude
    3. subjection; bondage; servitude
  4. something that binds, unites, or connects the yoke of matrimony
  5. something like a yoke in shape or function; specif.,
    1. a frame fitting over the shoulders for carrying pails, etc., one on either end
    2. a clamp, coupling, slotted piece, etc. used to hold two parts together
    3. the crosspiece to which the steering cables are attached on a ship's rudder
    4. the bar used in double harnessing to connect the horse's collar to the tongue of the wagon or carriage
  6. a part of a garment fitted closely to the shoulders, as of a dress, or to the hips, as of a skirt, as a support for gathered parts
  7. Elec. a piece of magnetic material, without windings, that permanently connects two or more magnet cores
  8. Electronics an assembly of coils and magnetic material placed about the neck of a cathode-ray tube to provide electromagnetic deflection fields for the electron beam

Etymology: ME yok < OE geoc, akin to Ger joch < IE *yugo- (> Sans yuga, L jungere, jugum, Gr zeugma, Welsh iau, OSlav igo) < base *yeu-, to join

transitive verb yoked, yok′·ing

  1. to put a yoke on
  2. to harness (an animal) to (a plow, etc.)
    1. to join together; link
    2. to join in marriage
  4. Rare to enslave

intransitive verb

to be joined together or closely united

yoke Synonyms

yoke

v.

couple, link, connect, join, conjoin, harness, splice, unite, associate, bind, attach, fix, strap, buckle, bracket, hitch, lay together, tack together, secure, mate; see also fasten 1.

Antonyms separate*, divorce, sever.

yoke Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • fork: Still have original Harley front end, forks yokes light etc, available seperately.
  • lift: The day the blockade is stopped will be like lifting a yoke from our shoulders.
  • bear: Bearing the yoke in youth: a New Year's address to the young.
  • break: Again, the anointing will break the yoke that is holding the people back in the Spirit.

Adjective modifier

  • unequal: Dear young people avoid the unequal yoke it is contrary to the word of God.
  • colonial: In the past millions of Africans fought for a vote to be able to free themselves from the colonial yoke.
  • heavy: Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.
  • wooden: Instead, he is carrying milk in open pails hung from a wooden yoke across his shoulders.
  • foreign: For no gallant Son of Britain To a foreign yoke shall bend.

Modifies a noun

  • fellow: One, he's referring to somebody we don't know, somebody that was known as Paul's yoke fellow.

Modifying Another Word

  • unequally: Others are unequally yoked to unbelievers, every day proving how unequal the yoke is.

Noun used with modifier

  • wobble: The core of the system works on a Stirling engine design, which incorporates four pistons and a ' wobble yoke ' .
  • ox: Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
  • iron: Is not Satan's service a terrible task, an intolerable burden, an iron yoke, in comparison to God's service?
  • egg: Variations To be even more traditional beat two egg yokes into the sauce before pouring.

Preposition: of

  • ox: The peasants worked their own land with a light plow drawn by a single yoke of oxen.
  • bondage: It is no more a yoke of bondage to me than it is a yoke of bondage to him.
  • slavery: They say, together with their political leaders: " There will be no return to the yoke of slavery.
  • oppression: In just a few weeks another 10 nations, many freed from the yoke of Communist oppression.

Preposition: with

  • unbeliever: The Bible says: Do not be yoked together with unbelievers.

Browse dictionary entries near yoke

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