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Yoke

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1050, OED Evaluation: NA

A contrivance, used from ancient times, by which two animals, esp. oxen, are coupled together for drawing a plough or vehicle; usually consisting of a somewhat curved or hollowed piece of wood fitted with ‘bows’ or hoops at the ends which are passed round the animals’ necks, and having a ring or hook attached to the middle to which is fastened a chain or trace extending backward by which the plough or vehicle is drawn. Also A frame fitted to the neck and shoulders of a person for carrying a pair of pails, baskets, etc.

ExampleMeaning
Ah, run through to the neck-yoke.
A piece of wood or other such contrivance used to attach two animals near their necks.
Speaker: Well, ah, that'd have to be a- ah, pole, or tongue, between the horses. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Ah, run through to the neck-yoke. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: There's no- there's no pull between those lines. Interviewer: No. Speaker: No, well, you'd have to pull the neck-yoke, and the whippletrees would be attached to the- to the pole ahead of the front axle.
A piece of wood or other such contrivance used to attach two animals near their necks.
ExampleMeaning
But Dad said there was oxen- they used oxen and they, used the big heavy yokes on the oxen. You ever see an oxen yoke? Well they had that, and ah they used the ploughs I think.
A piece of wood or other such contrivance used to attach two animals near their necks.
Speaker: And there was whiffletrees and there was neck yokes and- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: All-this-kind-of-stuff.
A piece of wood or other such contrivance used to attach two animals near their necks.
ExampleMeaning
Just showing people what they were like. These yokes went across the top of the neck here and they loop around here.
A piece of wood or other such contrivance used to attach two animals near their necks.
That was for if you wanted to back up. That's what went on the neck yoke and you backed up.
A piece of wood or other such contrivance used to attach two animals near their necks.
ExampleMeaning
Then- then- then they had a- they had a neck yoke and the neck yoke come up to there- about, I'd say three feet, two and a half three feet w-- uh, long and they had a ring in each end and they had what they call a full-stop that run from the- from the car around and out- out to the car on both horses and then sometimes they had what they call a ring.
A piece of wood or other such contrivance used to attach two animals near their necks.
ExampleMeaning
And a neck-yoke goes across in front of the horse and attaches to the hames on the collar of each horse.
A piece of wood or other such contrivance used to attach two animals near their necks.
ExampleMeaning
And you carried your water on a yoke. Two pales of water from- from the central place at Tech-Hughes when we were there.
A frame fitted to the neck and shoulders of a person for carrying a pair of pails, baskets, etc.
ExampleMeaning
You-know, I-mean the house that she lived in would have been very poorly insulated and I-mean, winters were very cold up here and she had to go and get water from- she had to haul water with a yoke at first and-
A frame fitted to the neck and shoulders of a person for carrying a pair of pails, baskets, etc.
ExampleMeaning
And this one here, I brought a yoke of oxen up from, ah, Nova-Scotia in nineteen-eighty-three and that's it there.
A piece of wood or other such contrivance used to attach two animals near their necks.
And, ah, those are just- that- I had those yoke oxen I sold to the Ontario government and-
A piece of wood or other such contrivance used to attach two animals near their necks.