yoke

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
2. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
3. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
4. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
5. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
6. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
7. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
8. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
9. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
10. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
11. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
12. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
13. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
14. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
15. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
16. Senses relating to a pair of harnessed draught animals.
17. Senses relating to a pair of harnessed draught animals.
18. Senses relating to a pair of harnessed draught animals.
19. (informal) Senses relating to a pair of harnessed draught animals.
20. (informal) Senses relating to a pair of harnessed draught animals.
21. (slang) Senses relating to a pair of harnessed draught animals.
22. Senses relating to quantities, and other extended uses.
23. Senses relating to quantities, and other extended uses.
24. Senses relating to quantities, and other extended uses.
25. Senses relating to quantities, and other extended uses.

Verb

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.
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.
3. To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something.
4. To place a collar on the neck of (a conquered person or prisoner) to restrain movement.
5. To place a frame on the neck of (an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose) to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
6. To bring (two or more people or things) into a close relationship (often one that is undesired); to connect, to link, to unite.
7. (obsolete) To bring into or keep (someone) in bondage or a state of submission; to enslave; to confine, to restrain; to oppress, to subjugate.
8. 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).
9. To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with.
10. (obsolete) To be or become joined in wedlock; to be married, to wed.

Concepts

joug

palanche

carcan

empiècement

paire

lien

🔗

lier

🔗

accoupler

attelage

relier

selle

servitude

carcasse

moise

📒

TWAIN

dyade

youg

twain

apparier

atteler

bâti

couple

👫

duo

manche

manche à balai

oppression

Synonymes

oppression

harness

span

join

pair

couple

👫

link

🔗

brace

collar

couplet

fetters

attach

bind

hitch up

dyad

tie

relate

duad

duet

twain

2

twosome

string

🪢

duo

coupling

distich

gear

⚙️

gluttony

greed

head stack

hitch

hook up

humiliation

interrelate

joint

league together

Libra

♎

link up

mesh

miter

oppress

oxbow

piece

piggyback

pole

rebate

regard

repression

restrain

restraint

restrict

rocker

servitude

shackles

splice

string up

subjection

subjoin

subjugate

subjugation

suffix

supplement

suppress

team

tee bend

tessellate

ties

tire

touch on

unite

victimisation

wye

control column

cross-beam

string along

Y

Y

lickerishness

harness a horse

carrying pole

harness a cart

hitch up a cart

rod clevis

magnetic yoke

tee fitting

tee joint

spreader beam

Twain

tee branch

tee conneetion

socket slide

group of heads

yoke of the magnet

field yoke

yoke iron

heel piede

hitch yoke

shaft clevis

affiliate

shoulder-yoke

annex

append

ascribe

associate

attach to

band oneself

beam

bear on

bear upon

bib

bond

bound

bund

carcass

chains

⛓️

colligate

come to

commit

consignment

doublet

drift

driftage

engraft

fasten

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/jəʊk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: yok

Hérité de ancien anglais: ġeoc

Hérité de moyen anglais: yoken

Hérité de ancien anglais: ġeocian

In summary

From Middle English yok, yoke, ȝok from Old English ġeoc (“yoke”), from Proto-Germanic *juką (“yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (“yoke”), from *yewg- (“to join; to tie together, yoke”). Doublet of yuga, jugum, yoga and possibly yogh.
Senses 3.1 (“area of arable land”) and 3.2 (“amount of work done with draught animals”) probably referred to the area of land that could generally be ploughed by yoked draught animals within a given time.