Crossword-Solution: YOKE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Yoke | n. | A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together. |
| Yoke | n. | A frame or piece resembling a yoke, as in use or shape. |
| Yoke | n. | A frame of wood fitted to a person's shoulders for carrying pails, etc., suspended on each side; as, a milkmaid's yoke. |
| Yoke | n. | A frame worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a goose, to prevent passage through a fence. |
| Yoke | n. | A frame or convex piece by which a bell is hung for ringing it. See Illust. of Bell. |
| Yoke | n. | A crosspiece upon the head of a boat's rudder. To its ends lines are attached which lead forward so that the boat can be steered from amidships. |
| Yoke | n. | A bent crosspiece connecting two other parts. |
| Yoke | n. | A tie securing two timbers together, not used for part of a regular truss, but serving a temporary purpose, as to provide against unusual strain. |
| Yoke | n. | A band shaped to fit the shoulders or the hips, and joined to the upper full edge of the waist or the skirt. |
| Yoke | n. | Fig.: That which connects or binds; a chain; a link; a bond connection. |
| Yoke | n. | A mark of servitude; hence, servitude; slavery; bondage; service. |
| Yoke | n. | Two animals yoked together; a couple; a pair that work together. |
| Yoke | n. | The quantity of land plowed in a day by a yoke of oxen. |
| Yoke | n. | A portion of the working day; as, to work two yokes, that is, to work both portions of the day, or morning and afternoon. |
| Yoke | v. t. | To put a yoke on; to join in or with a yoke; as, to yoke oxen, or pair of oxen. |
| Yoke | v. t. | To couple; to join with another. |
| Yoke | v. t. | To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine. |
| Yoke | v. i. | To be joined or associated; to be intimately connected; to consort closely; to mate. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| YOKE | anagram | OKEY |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with YOKE (5)
Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain’d Unacceptable, though in Heav’n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp.
Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion.
The country children thereabouts wore their dresses to their shoe-tops, but this city child was dressed in what was then called the “Kate Greenaway” manner, and her red cashmere frock, gathered full from the yoke, came almost to the floor.
Victorious deeds Flamed in my heart, heroic acts—one while To rescue Israel from the Roman yoke; Then to subdue and quell, o’er all the earth, Brute violence and proud tyrannic power, Till truth were freed, and equity restored: 220 Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear; At least to try, and teach the erring soul, Not wilfully misdoing, but unware Misled; the stubborn only to subdue.
The serf, in the period of serfdom, raised himself to membership in the commune, just as the petty bourgeois, under the yoke of feudal absolutism, managed to develop into a bourgeois.
Quotes with YOKE (3)
O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or (worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine? I do not mean that they choose what is customary in preference to what suits their own inclinations. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do…
Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever his heart required. For Sorweel, belief and want always seemed like ropes too short to bind together, forcing him to play the knot as a result.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 342 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).