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yoke

UK/jəʊk/ US/joʊk/ uncommon archaic informal obsolete slang us
noun (7) verb (3)

noun

1.

fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment

2.

an oppresssive power

  • “under the yoke of a tyrant”
  • “they threw off the yoke of domination”
3.
4.

a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke

  • “pulled by a yoke of oxen”
5.

support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end

6.

a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together

Synonyms
7.

stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team

verb

1.
2.

link with or as with a yoke

  • “yoke the oxen together”
Synonyms
3.

put a yoke on or join with a yoke

  • “Yoke the draft horses together”
Antonyms

Origin

From Middle English iuc, jok, yok, yoke, ȝok, ȝook, from Old English ġeoc, ġioc, ioc (“yoke”), from Proto-West Germanic *juk, from Proto-Germanic *juką (“yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (“yoke”), from *yewg- (“to join, yoke”). Doublet of yuga, jugum, yoga and possibly yogh. Senses 3.1 (“area of arable land”) and 3.2 (“amount of work done with draught animals”) probably referred to the area of land that could generally be ploughed by yoked draught animals within a given time. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Juk (“yoke”), Cimbrian jòch (“yoke”), Dutch juk (“yoke; burden”), German Joch (“yoke”), Luxembourgish Jach (“yoke”), Danish åg (“yoke”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish ok (“yoke”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk åk (“yoke”), Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌺 (juk, “yoked pair of animals”); also Breton yev (“yoke”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic cuing (“yoke; bond, tie”), Manx quing (“yoke”), Welsh iau (“yoke”), Latin iugum, jugum (“yoke”), Greek ζυγός (zygós, “even; twin”), Latvian jūgs (“yoke; bondage; cart”), Lithuanian jungas (“yoke”), Bulgarian и́го (ígo), юго (jugo, “yoke”), Czech jho (“yoke”), Kashubian jigò, jugò (“yoke”), Macedonian иго (igo, “yoke”), Polabian jaiďü (“yo...

Phrases

  • milkmaid's yoke
  • Mongol Yoke
  • neck yoke
  • pass under the yoke
  • pig yoke
  • Tatar Yoke
  • tiller yoke
  • under the yoke
  • yoke together

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