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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
