Yoke meaning

Noun: yoke

Pronunciation: (yowk)

Yoke meaning: A wooden crosspiece that is fastened over the necks of two animals and attached to the plow or cart that they are to pull. The modern yoke for oxen is usually a piece of timber hollowed, or made curving, near each end, and laid on the necks of the oxen, being secured in place by two bows, one in closing each neck, and fastened through the timber.

Synonyms: bondage, coupling

 

• An oppressive power
• Fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment

We were yoked together with unbelievers.

Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yoke for the wood.

He was yoked to his job.

The two oxen were yoked together.

Marriage was all a woman’s idea and for man’s acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Why are we going to put this yoke on corporate America’s neck? This is a problem for everybody in the country.

Carrying the water just with your arms over a long ways was just too hard on you. With the yoke the weight was on your shoulders.

The word yoga literally means to join up, or to yoke together. What we’re trying to join together in yoga is the body, the mind and the spirit.

We will never forget the men who agreed to make the supreme sacrifice to liberate our soil, our country, our continent from the yoke of Nazi barbarity. It will never forget what it owes America, our eternal friend.