YOKE

(WOODEN BAR) [noun] [C] - a wooden bar which is fastened over the necks of two animals, esp. cattle, and connected to the vehicle or load that they are pullingThe oxen are led up to the sledges, and tricked into the yoke.(literary) Yoke can also be used to refer to something which unfairly limits freedom.It was during those years that the British colonial yoke was lifted.Both countries had recently thrown off the communist yoke.She did not want the yoke of marriage.