Last Updated ：2025/11/20

yoke

IPA(Pronunciation)

/jəʊk/

empty-gloss historical archaic Ireland Scotland informal slang Kent England figuratively

A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.

Japanese Meaning

家畜（特に牛など）を連結して耕作や運搬などの作業を行わせるために用いる木や金属の枠、軛

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The farmer fitted a heavy wooden yoke across the oxen's necks before they pulled the plough.

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農夫は、牛がすきを引く前に、牛の首をつなぐ重い木製のくびきを取り付けた。

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Sense（1）

Thy seruant in walking thy pastures aboute: / for yokes, forkes and rakes, let him loke to finde oute. / And after at leyser let this be his hier: / to trimme them and make them at home by the fier.

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Sense（2）

Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.

Steam Engines. […] The valve rods are coupled by connecting-rods […] and yokes[…], to eccentrics[…].

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(historical)

Sense（4）

(chiefly historical) A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something.

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Sense（5）

(archaic) A pair of things linked in some way.

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Sense（6）

(Ireland, Scotland) A carriage, a horse and cart; (by extension, generally) a car or other vehicle.

[…] I missed the train home and I couldn't get any kind of a yoke to give me a lift for, as luck would have it, there was a mass meeting that same day over in Castletownroche and all the cars in the country were there.

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Sense（7）

(Ireland, informal) A miscellaneous object; a gadget.

Sense（8）

(Ireland, informal) A chap, a fellow.

Sense（9）

(Ireland, slang) A pill of a psychoactive drug.

Sense（10）

(chiefly Kent, archaic) An area of arable land, specifically one consisting of a quarter of a suling, or around 50–60 acres (20–24 hectares); hence, a small manor or piece of land.

Of this ſuling Ralph de Curbeſpine holds one yoke and an half, which is and was worth ſeparately ten ſhillings. Adelold had half a ſuling and half a yoke, and in the time of K. Edward the Confeſſor it was worth 40 ſhillings, and afterwards 20 ſhillings, now 40 ſhillings.

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Sense（11）

(chiefly England, regional (especially Kent), and Scotland, historical) An amount of work done with draught animals, lasting about half a day; (by extension) an amount or shift of any work.