[yohk] 
noun, plural yokes for 1, 3–20, yoke for 2; verb, yoked, yok⋅ing.| 1. | a device for joining together a pair of draft animals, esp. oxen, usually consisting of a crosspiece with two bow-shaped pieces, each enclosing the head of an animal. Compare harness (def. 1). |
| 2. | a pair of draft animals fastened together by a yoke: five yoke of oxen. |
| 3. | something resembling a yoke or a bow of a yoke in form or use. |
| 4. | a frame fitting the neck and shoulders of a person, for carrying a pair of buckets or the like, one at each end. |
| 5. | an agency of oppression, subjection, servitude, etc. |
| 6. | an emblem or symbol of subjection, servitude, slavery, etc., as an archway under which prisoners of war were compelled to pass by the ancient Romans and others. |
| 7. | something that couples or binds together; a bond or tie. |
| 8. | Machinery. a viselike piece gripping two parts firmly together. |
| 9. | Also called fork. a forklike termination for a rod or shaft, inside which another part is secured. |
| 10. | a fitting for the neck of a draft animal for suspending the tongue of a cart, carriage, etc., from a harness. |
| 11. | a crosshead attached to the upper piston of an opposed-piston engine with rods to transmit power to the crankshaft. |
| 12. | (in an airplane) a double handle, somewhat like a steering wheel in form, by which the elevators are controlled. |
| 13. | Nautical. a crossbar on the head of the rudder of a small boat, having lines or chains attached to the ends so as to permit the steering of the boat from forward. |
| 14. | spreader beam. |
| 15. | a shaped piece in a garment, fitted about or below the neck and shoulders or about the hips, from which the rest of the garment hangs. |
| 16. | a horizontal piece forming the top of a window frame. |
| 17. | a Y-shaped piece connecting branch pipes with a main soil pipe. |
| 18. | Television. an electromagnetic assembly placed around the neck of a cathode-ray tube to produce and control the scanning motion of electron beams inside the tube. |
| 19. | British Dialect. (esp. in Kent)
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| 20. | a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter Y. |
| 21. | to put a yoke on; join or couple by means of a yoke. |
| 22. | to attach (a draft animal) to a plow or vehicle: to yoke oxen. |
| 23. | to harness a draft animal to (a plow or vehicle): to yoke a wagon. |
| 24. | to join, couple, link, or unite. |
| 25. | Obsolete. to bring into subjection or servitude. |
| 26. | to be or become joined, linked, or united. |
yoke (yōk)
n.
See jugum.
