See Also: Yoke(medicine)
yoke(1)(dictionary)
yoke(2)(dictionary)
alveolar yoke(medicine)
yoke bone(medicine)
yoke-toed(medicine)
yoke-fellow(dictionary)
yoke 1, noun(dictionary)
yoke 2, verb(dictionary)

yoke(2) (iou)



yoke verb.

verb trans.
a. Put a yoke on (a pair of draught animals etc.); couple with a yoke. Also (Austral.) foll. by up. OE.
b. Attach (an animal) to a plough or vehicle (orig. with a yoke); provide (a plough or vehicle) with yoked animals. LME.
fig.: W. R. Nicoll He yoked his great imagination to constant labour.
verb trans. Bring into or hold in subjection; subjugate, oppress. Now rare or obsolete. ME.
Milton But foul effeminacy held me yok't.
fig.
a. verb trans. & (now rare) intrans. Bring or enter into association. ME.
Tennyson The care That yokes with empire. Review of English Studies Instances which illustrate different phenomena are yoked together.
b. verb intrans. & (in pass.) trans. Become or be married. L16.
c. verb trans. gen. Attach, put on or in (as a yoke). M19.
verb trans. Restrain (a pig or other animal) with a neck-yoke. M16.
yokable,
yokeable adjective (rare) L15.
yoker noun (rare) L15.