Definitions
put a yoke on or join with a yoke
Word origin
From Middle English yok, yoke, ȝok from Old English ġeoc (“yoke”), from Proto-Germanic *juką (“yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (“yoke”), from *yewg- (“to join; to tie together, yoke”). Doublet of yuga, jugum, yoga and possibly yogh.
Used in a sentence
“Thy seruant in walking thy pastures aboute: / for yokes, forkes and rakes, let him loke to finde oute. / And after at leyser let this be his hier: / to trimme them and make them at home by the fier.”
“The Oxe hath therefore ſtretcht his yoake in vaine, / The Ploughman loſt his ſweat, and the greene corne / Hath rotted, ere his youth attainde a bearde: […]”
“Firſt let 'em [horses] run at large; and never know / The taming Yoak, or draw the crooked Plough.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Oxen harness”4 letters
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