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Word entry · 4 letters

yoke

Best crossword clue

"Oxen harness"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /jəʊk/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ekoyStarts with YEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1Y2O3K4E

Definitions

  1. 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.

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