English Dictionary

yoke

/jəʊk/

verb

To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.

She yokes the oxen to the plow.

意味（1）

To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.

Bubulcus, […] An oxeheard, or coweheard: a driuer of oxen and kine: he that yoketh oxen, and […] goeth to plowe with them.

意味（2）

To put (one's arm or arms) around someone's neck, waist, etc.; also, to surround (someone's neck, waist, etc.) with one's arms.

意味（3）

To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something.

意味（4）

(historical); (figuratively); (chiefly Scotland, archaic, passive) To be joined to (another person) in wedlock (often with the implication that it is a burdensome state); to be or become married to (someone).

God ſir be a man, / Thinke euery bearded fellow, that's but yoak'd, / May draw with you, […]

意味（5）

To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with.

[I]f you will paſſe / To where you are bound, you muſt enquire your way, / Which you are out of, with a gentler ſpirit, / Or neuer be ſo Noble as a Conſull, / Nor yoake with him for Tribune.

意味（6）

(chiefly Scotland, obsolete) To be or become joined in wedlock; to be married, to wed.

God forbid, that I ſhould wiſh them ſeuer'd, / Whom God hath ioyn'd together: / I, and 'twere pittie, to ſunder them, / That yoake ſo well together.