[ UK /jˈə‍ʊk/ ]
[ US /ˈjoʊk/ ]
NOUN
  1. support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end
  2. stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team
  3. a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke
    pulled by a yoke of oxen
  4. an oppressive power
    they threw off the yoke of domination
    under the yoke of a tyrant
  5. two items of the same kind
  6. a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
  7. fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment
VERB
  1. link with or as with a yoke
    yoke the oxen together
  2. become joined or linked together
  3. put a yoke on or join with a yoke
    Yoke the draft horses together
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How To Use yoke In A Sentence

  • All these different political elements have somehow been yoked together to form a new alliance.
  • Kelsey fought to maintain control with the yoke that was trying to shake itself out of his hands.
  • I felt as though, strong as the yoke of these janizaries and their master looked, I had the death-warrant of imperialism in my pocket. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
  • yoke the oxen together
  • Young people often chafe under the yoke of parental control.
  • As with most aircraft stabilizer trim arrangements, the primary system consists of two switches on the yoke.
  • El Barzon (the yoke) takes it's name from the revolutionary saying, "the yoke is broken, but the ox goes on". The middle class revolt
  • This full-length jersey has a double shoulder/yoke with full-cut sleeves and underarm gusset, plus elastic ribbed gathers on edges of sleeves.
  • The terret would originally have been attached to a chariot yoke, probably serving to guide the reins for a double harness.
  • Fifty three years ago India shook off the yoke of British imperialism and became independent.
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