Yokefellow
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Yokefellow is a noun meaning A companion; a fellow labourer, a person who works at the same task as another.
Meaning
A companion; a fellow labourer, a person who works at the same task as another.
More Meanings
- (archaic) Someone joined in marriage to another; a spouse.
Example Sentences
Jesus treats his disciples as yokefellows rather than as camels and donkeys to be loaded down (23:4).
...till new grounds of quarrel had arisen between the two unequal yokefellows who were at last fully coupled together.
Brain and hand, and means and muscle, are true yokefellows in modern industrialism. Without the inventor, there could be no machinery.
[H]is industrious yoke-fellow executed every circumstance of the plan she had projected; so that, when he recovered his vision, he was an utter stranger in his own house.
Word Forms
- yokefellows
- yoke-fellow
- yoke fellow
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include workfellow, fellow, coachfellow, comrade, associate, mate.
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