yoke

[US]/jəʊk/
[UK]/jok/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a bond or pair; a harness for oxen
vt. to join or link together
vi. to join or match

Phrases & Collocations

yoke of oxen

shoulder the yoke

yoke together

deflection yoke

Example Sentences

a yoke of oxen.

the yoke of imperialism.

the yoke of marriage.

yoke a horse to a cart

a yoke of oxen).

under the yoke of the king

They are yoked in marriage.

to shake off the yoke of

He yoked the oxen to the plough.

The farmer yoked the oxen.

14th-century Russia under the Tartar yoke; the yoke of drug addiction.

Some designs incorporate a two-piece bonnet and yoke.

a plough drawn by a camel and donkey yoked together.

He was yoked to an unwilling partner.

Every farmer knows how to yoke the oxen together.

They were yoked together in the same office.

Hong Kong's dollar has been yoked to America's.

partners who were yoked together for life.

The high-mettled animal that is restive in the yoke only galls his shoulders;

a brace of partridges), andyoke to two joined draft animals (

Real-world Examples

Shedding the yoke of my oppressors, you blind, sad little man.

Source: The Big Bang Theory Season 8

Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.

Source: What it takes: Celebrity Interviews

Not egg, Minister, just imperialist " yoke" .

Source: Yes, Minister Season 1

Tomorrow she would fit the yoke about her neck. Tomorrow there would be so many things to do.

Source: Gone with the Wind

The yoke of Spanish oppression will chafe Colombian shoulders no longer!

Source: Modern Family - Season 10

Being dragged from their homes to labor under the yoke of the white man.

Source: The Big Bang Theory Season 7

If you'd like to get hands on, help harnessing, help yoking, even do a bit of mushing.

Source: CNN 10 Student English February 2020 Compilation

Then, as now, her centre-right Christian Democrats were yoked with the centre-left Social Democrats in a grand coalition.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Six horses were yoked to it, whereas the others were furnished with two, or, at most, four apiece.

Source: A Study in Scarlet by Sherlock Holmes

Yes, sir. But giving up that intolerable earthly yoke that some men call freedom is perhaps less painful than you think!

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Original Version)

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