Definitions for yoke

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Spelling: [yohk]

IPA: /yoʊk/

Yoke is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in yoke (ekoy).

Definitions for yoke

noun

1. a device for joining together a pair of draft animals, especially oxen, usually consisting of a crosspiece with two bow-shaped pieces, each enclosing the head of an animal. Compare harness (def 1).
2. a pair of draft animals fastened together by a yoke:
3. something resembling a yoke or a bow of a yoke in form or use.
4. a frame fitting the neck and shoulders of a person, for carrying a pair of buckets or the like, one at each end.
5. an agency of oppression, subjection, servitude, etc.
6. an emblem or symbol of subjection, servitude, slavery, etc., as an archway under which prisoners of war were compelled to pass by the ancient Romans and others.
7. something that couples or binds together; a bond or tie.
8. Machinery. a viselike piece gripping two parts firmly together.
9. Also called fork. a forklike termination for a rod or shaft, inside which another part is secured.
10. a fitting for the neck of a draft animal for suspending the tongue of a cart, carriage, etc., from a harness.
11. a crosshead attached to the upper piston of an opposed-piston engine with rods to transmit power to the crankshaft.
12. (in an airplane) a double handle, somewhat like a steering wheel in form, by which the elevators are controlled.
13. Nautical. a crossbar on the head of the rudder of a small boat, having lines or chains attached to the ends so as to permit the steering of the boat from forward.
14. spreader beam.
15. a shaped piece in a garment, fitted about or below the neck and shoulders or about the hips, from which the rest of the garment hangs.
16. a horizontal piece forming the top of a window frame.
17. a Y -shaped piece connecting branch pipes with a main soil pipe.
18. Television. an electromagnetic assembly placed around the neck of a cathode-ray tube to produce and control the scanning motion of electron beams inside the tube.
19. British Dialect. the time during which a plowman and team work without stopping; a period of plowing. a measure or area of land equal to over 50 but less than 60 acres.
20. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter Y.
21. yolk.

verb (used with object)

1. to put a yoke on; join or couple by means of a yoke.
2. to attach (a draft animal) to a plow or vehicle:
3. to harness a draft animal to (a plow or vehicle):
4. to join, couple, link, or unite.
5. Obsolete. to bring into subjection or servitude.

verb (used without object)

1. to be or become joined, linked, or united.

Origin of yoke

before 900; (noun) Middle English yok(e), Old English geoc; cognate with Dutch juk, German Joch, Old Norse ok, Latin jugum, Greek zygón, Hittite yugan, Sanskrit yuga; (v.) Middle English yoke

Examples for yoke

The U.S. is actually holding up its end of the bargain quite well, and assuming the yoke of economic leadership.

Once it was so huge that three hundred yoke of oxen could hardly move it.

The smoking cattle held their noses low, and swayed beneath the yoke.

Obama, finally freed from the yoke of reelection, could live out the true meaning of his promise.

Did a group of righteous warriors throw off the yoke of imperial oppression?

They may win, and if they do, it will be our necks that will be put into the yoke--or the halter.

When the state acts wrongly, the yoke of that sin falls upon all who do not protest.

The yoke of the Genoese continued longest, and was the heaviest.

He riveted on the gods his enemies the yoke which had been resting on them.

And, indeed, the Framers were armed revolutionaries who understood that guns were useful for throwing off the yoke of tyranny.