Yoke

Verb

 * 1) To link or to join.
 * 2) To unite, to connect.

Derived terms

 * yoke together

Noun

 * 1) A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together.
 * 2) A pair (of animals, especially oxen).
 * 3) * 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XIV:
 * And another sayd: I have bought fyve yooke of oxen, and I must goo to prove them, I praye the have me excused.
 * 1)  A burden; something which represses or restrains a person.
 * 2) The part of a shirt that stretches over the shoulders, usually made out of a doubled piece of fabric. Or, a pair of fabric panels on trousers (especially jeans) or a skirt, across the back of the garment below the waistband.
 * 3)  Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.
 * 4) * 2010, Jim Wendler, "Build an NFL Neck", Men's Fitness (April), page 73.
 * Nothing says you're a dedicated lifter and true athlete more than a massive yoke—that is, the muscles of the neck, traps, and rear delts.
 * 1)  The column-mounted control wheel of an aircraft.
 * 2)  The electro-magnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube).
 * 3)  A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered. In modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.
 * 4)  An alternative name for a cowpoke.
 * 5)  An undefined object, a gadget.

Synonyms

 * control wheel

Derived terms

 * pass under the yoke
 * under the yoke

Thesaurus
Oregon boat, accouple, accumulate, agglutinate, amass, articulate, assemble, associate, back band, backstrap, band, bearing rein, bed, bed down, bellyband, bilbo, bit, blinders, blinds, bond, bonds, both, brace, bracket, break, breeching, bridge, bridge over, bridle, brush, camisole, caparison, cavesson, cement, chain, chains, checkrein, cheekpiece, chinband, cinch, clap together, collar, collect, combine, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, copulate, couple, couple up, couplet, cover, crownband, crupper, cuffs, curb, curry, currycomb, distich, double harness, double-harness, double-team, doublet, drench, duad, duet, duo, dyad, embrace, encompass, enslavement, feed, fetter, fodder, gag, gag swivel, gather, gentle, girth, glue, groom, gyves, hackamore, halter, hames, hametugs, hamper, handcuffs, handle, harness, headgear, headstall, helotry, hip straps, hitch, hitch up, hobbles, hook up, hopples, include, irons, jaquima, jerk line, join, knot, lay together, leading strings, league, leash, ligament, ligature, lines, link, litter, lump together, manacle, manage, marry, marshal, martingale, mass, match, mate, mates, merge, milk, mobilize, muzzle, nexus, noseband, pair, pair off, peonage, piece together, pillory, pole strap, put together, reins, restraint, restraints, ribbons, roll into one, rub down, saddle, serfdom, servility, servitude, set of two, shackle, shaft tug, side check, slavery, snaffle, solder, span, splice, stick together, stocks, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, stranglehold, surcingle, tack, tackle, take in, tame, tape, team, team up, tend, tether, the two, thralldom, tie, train, trammel, trammels, trappings, tug, twain, two, twosome, unify, unite, vinculum, water, wed, weld, winker braces

Etymology
geoc:, from. Cognate with Latin iugum: (English jugular:), Sanskrit युग:, Old Church Slavonic иго: (Russian иго:), Persian یوغ:. Compare yoga:.

Verb

 * Catalan: junyir, júnyer, enjovar
 * Dutch: samenspannen
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 * Dutch: in de echt verbinden (huwelijk)


 * Russian: объединять

Noun

 * Albanian: zgjedhë
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 * Korean: 겨리 (gyeori), 멍에 (meongE)
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