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