noun / verb
yoke
YOHK/jəʊk/
A frame that joins or supports something, especially two working animals.
The wooden yoke joins the two oxen to the cart's central chain.
Etymology
Old English geoc could name both the harness and the pair of animals joined by it. The wooden frame makes two animals a working pair for pulling a wagon or plow.
In context
their yoke and you just hook it up with a chain the chain is then hooked to the whatever implement or the wagon and it's ready to go some commands given to these oxen
More examples
- The farmer yokes the oxen together before work.
- She carries two buckets suspended from a yoke across her shoulders.
- The villagers struggle under the yoke of an unjust ruler.
Forms
yoke · yokes · yoked · yoking