Yoke

Quick meaning: Yoke is a noun meaning Senses relating to a frame around the neck.

Meaning

Senses relating to a frame around the neck.

More Meanings

1. Senses relating to a pair of harnessed draught animals.
2. Senses relating to quantities, and other extended uses.
3. To put (one's arm or arms) around someone's neck, waist, etc.; also, to surround (someone's neck, waist, etc.) with one's arms.
4. To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something.
5. To place a collar on the neck of (a conquered person or prisoner) to restrain movement.
6. To place a frame on the neck of (an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose) to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
7. To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.

Example Sentences

Theſe on their Horſes vault, thoſe yoke the Car; / The reſt with Swords on high, run headlong to the War.

Nodhas, son of Gotama, has fabricated this new prayer to thee, O India, who art eternal, and yokest thy coursers, […]

Bubulcus, […] An oxeheard, or coweheard: a driuer of oxen and kine: he that yoketh oxen, and […] goeth to plowe with them.

But when Astrea’s Ballance, hung on high, / Betwixt the Nights and Days divides the Sky, / Then Yoke your Oxen, ſow your Winter Grain; / ’Till cold December comes with driving Rain.

Word Forms

• yokes
• yoking
• yoked

Synonyms for yoke

Depending on context, synonyms include link, span, brace, dyad, couple, pair.

Antonyms for yoke

Common opposites include unyoke.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brace, span, link, coupling, pair, couple.

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