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yoke |
7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Yoke \Yoke\ (y[=o]k), n. [OE. yok, [yogh]oc, AS geoc; akin to D. juk, OHG. joh, G. joch, Icel. & Sw ok Dan. aag, Goth. juk, Lith. jungas, Russ. igo, L. jugum, Gr zy`gon, Skr. yuga, and to L. jungere to join Gr ?, Skr. yui. [root]109, 280. Cf {Join}, {Jougs}, {Joust}, {Jugular}, {Subjugate}, {Syzygy}, {Yuga}, {Zeugma}.] 1. A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together. A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke, Untamed, unconscious of the galling yoke. --Pope. Note: The modern yoke for oxen is usually a piece of timber hollowed, or made curving, near each end and laid on the necks of the oxen, being secured in place by two bows, one inclosing each neck, and fastened through the timber. In some countries the yoke consists of a flat piece of wood fastened to the foreheads of the oxen by thongs about the horns. 2. A frame or piece resembling a yoke, as in use or shape. Specifically: a A frame of wood fitted to a person's shoulders for carrying pails, etc., suspended on each side as a milkmaid's yoke. b A frame worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a goose, to prevent passage through a fence. c A frame or convex piece by which a bell is hung for ringing it See Illust. of {Bell}. d A crosspiece upon the head of a boat's rudder. To its ends lines are attached which lead forward so that the boat can be steered from amidships. e (Mach.) A bent crosspiece connecting two other parts f (Arch.) A tie securing two timbers together, not used for part of a regular truss, but serving a temporary purpose, as to provide against unusual strain. g (Dressmaking) A band shaped to fit the shoulders or the hips, and joined to the upper full edge of the waist or the skirt. 3. Fig.: That which connects or binds; a chain; a link; a bond connection. Boweth your neck under that blissful yoke . . . Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock. --Chaucer. This yoke of marriage from us both remove. --Dryden. 4. A mark of servitude; hence servitude; slavery; bondage; service. Our country sinks beneath the yoke. --Shak. My yoke is easy, and my burden is light. --Matt. xi 30. 5. Two animals yoked together; a couple; a pair that work together. I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them --Luke xiv. 19. 6. The quantity of land plowed in a day by a yoke of oxen. [Obs.] --Gardner. 7. A portion of the working day as to work two yokes, that is to work both portions of the day or morning and afternoon. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. {Neck yoke}, {Pig yoke}. See under {Neck}, and {Pig}. {Yoke elm} (Bot.), the European hornbeam ({Carpinus Betulus}), a small tree with tough white wood, often used for making yokes for cattle. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Yoke \Yoke\, v. i. To be joined or associated; to be intimately connected; to consort closely; to mate. We 'll yoke together, like a double shadow. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Yoke \Yoke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Yoked}; p. pr & vb n. {Yoking}.] 1. To put a yoke on to join in or with a yoke; as to yoke oxen, or pair of oxen. 2. To couple; to join with another. ``Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers.'' --2 Cor. vi 14. Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb. --Shak. 3. To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine. Then were they yoked with garrisons. --Milton. The words and promises that yoke The conqueror are quickly broke. --Hudibras. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Yoke \Yoke\, n. (Chiefly Mach.) A clamp or similar piece that embraces two other parts to hold or unite them in their respective or relative positions, as a strap connecting a slide valve to the valve stem, or the soft iron block or bar permanently connecting the pole pieces of an electromagnet, as in a dynamo. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: yoke n 1: a fitted part at the top of a garment 2: two items of the same kind [syn: {couple}, {doubleton}, {pair}, {twosome}, {twain}, {brace}, {span}, {couplet}, {distich}, {duo}, {duet}, {dyad}, {duad}] 3: a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end 4: connects two things so they move together [syn: {coupling}] 5: joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together v 1: become joined or linked together 2: link with or as with a yoke; "yoke the oxen together" [syn: {link}] 3: put a yoke on join with a yoke; of draft animals; "Yoke the draft horses together" [ant: {unyoke}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Yoke (1.) Fitted on the neck of oxen for the purpose of binding to them the traces by which they might draw the plough, etc (Num. 19:2; Deut. 21:3). It was a curved piece of wood called _'ol_. (2.) In Jer. 27:2; 28:10, 12 the word in the Authorized Version rendered yoke" is _motah_, which properly means a "staff," or as in the Revised Version, "bar." These words in the Hebrew are both used figuratively of severe bondage, or affliction, or subjection (Lev. 26:13; 1 Kings 12:4; Isa. 47:6; Lam. 1:14; 3:27). In the New Testament the word yoke" is also used to denote servitude (Matt. 11:29, 30; Acts 15:10; Gal. 5:1). (3.) In 1 Sam. 11:7, 1 Kings 19:21, Job 1:3 the word thus translated is _tzemed_, which signifies a pair, two oxen yoked or coupled together, and hence in 1 Sam. 14:14 it represents as much land as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day like the Latin _jugum_. In Isa. 5:10 this word in the plural is translated "acres." From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name _jugum_, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language -- a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy. A thousand apologies for withholding it
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