I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the moment his shoulders simply felt bowed, as if some one had laid a yoke across them.
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At times the yoke of his vocation was almost unbearable, although there is no indication that he ever regretted assuming it.
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For centuries, every autumn horses like Duchess were harnessed to a yoke .
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He was wearing dark trousers and a blue serge shirt with a yoke across the front.
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Looping a seatbelt over the yoke or stick won't really help much in high winds or gusty conditions.
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Only through such an accidental, miraculous chance could anyone expect to shake off the yoke of grimly limited prospects.
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The next stage is removing the white and yoke .
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They are like a great yoke sitting on our shoulders.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Furthermore, the cult which is thus yoked with such practice is supposed to be of a far different order of reality.
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The horses had been bridled and yoked to the car.
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Things that had been yoked, harnessed, held down and held back by a power that was dissolving.
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Though we were yoked together for decades, I feel as threatened as if he were the hacker.
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Thus neither side is any further forward, and each is adventitiously yoked to the vicissitudes of a complex metaphysical issue.
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To draw a heavy plough through wet clay soil, a pair of oxen, yoked together was used.