to yoke to a plough

  • 1yoke — ► NOUN 1) a wooden crosspiece that is fastened over the necks of two animals and attached to a plough or cart that they pull in unison. 2) (pl. same or yokes) a pair of yoked animals. 3) a frame fitting over the neck and shoulders of a person,… …

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  • 2yoke — n. & v. n. 1 a wooden crosspiece fastened over the necks of two oxen etc. and attached to the plough or wagon to be drawn. 2 (pl. same or yokes) a pair (of oxen etc.). 3 an object like a yoke in form or function, e.g. a wooden shoulder piece for… …

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  • 3Yoke —    1) Fitted on the neck of oxen for the purpose of binding to them the traces by which they might draw the plough, etc. (Num. 19:2; Deut. 21:3). It was a curved piece of wood called ol.    2) In Jer. 27:2; 28:10, 12 the word in the Authorized… …

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  • 4yoke — noun 1》 a wooden crosspiece that is fastened over the necks of two animals and attached to a plough or cart that they pull in unison.     ↘(plural same or yokes) a pair of animals yoked together.     ↘archaic the amount of land that one pair of… …

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  • 5yoke — /joʊk / (say yohk) noun (plural yokes for defs 1 and 3 10 or yoke for def. 2, for defs 1 and 3 10) 1. a contrivance for joining a pair of draught animals, especially oxen, usually consisting of a crosspiece with two bow shaped pieces beneath,… …

  • 6yoke — [[t]jo͟ʊk[/t]] yokes, yoking, yoked 1) N SING: usu N of n, adj N If you say that people are under the yoke of a bad thing or person, you mean they are forced to live in a difficult or unhappy state because of that thing or person. [LITERARY]… …

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  • 7Yoke — 1) Kentish area of land = c.50 60 acres. Cf. Rape1; Wand 2) Wooden frame which linked oxen together and to the plough; also, three spears joined together beneath which defeated soldiers were made to march as a sign of that defeat …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 8Star of the county down — Liedtext Near to Banbridge town, in the County Down, One morning in July, Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen And she smiled as she passed me by; Oh, she looked so sweet from her two white feet, To the sheen of her nut brown hair, Sure the… …

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  • 9The Star of the County Down — Liedtext Near to Banbridge town, in the County Down, One morning in July, Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen And she smiled as she passed me by; Oh, she looked so sweet from her two white feet, To the sheen of her nut brown hair, Sure the… …

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  • 10Redgorton —    REDGORTON, a parish, in the county of Perth, 4 miles (W. by N.) from Perth; containing, with the villages of Bridgetown, Luncarty, Craighead, Cromwell Park, and Pitcairn Green, and part of the late quoad sacra district of Stanley, 1929… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland