A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered. In modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks
The part of a shirt that stretches over the shoulders, usually made out of a doubled piece of fabric. Or, a pair of fabric panels on trousers (especially jeans) or a skirt, across the back of the garment below the waistband
If two or more people or things are yoked together, they are forced to be closely linked with each other. The introduction attempts to yoke the pieces together The Auto Pact yoked Ontario into the United States economy Farmers and politicians are yoked by money and votes
On a canoe, a shaped crosspiece, generally hardwood and often with pads, designed to balance the load of the canoe on one's shoulders while portaging Also called a Portage Yoke
If you say that people are under the yoke of a bad thing or person, you mean they are forced to live in a difficult or unhappy state because of that thing or person. People are still suffering under the yoke of slavery
A fitting used on center-pull caliper and cantilever brakes which use a transverse cable The yoke is the part that connects the main cable to the transverse cable This is frequently misspelled as "yolk", which is part of an egg
[1] A triangular metal piece used to connect the main brake cable with the stirrup cable in a centerpull brake system Also known as a "saddle" or "pick-up "[2] A bracket or coupling [3] A forked parts of a U-joint connected by the spider
Synonymous with headstock More common term in America for the inverted U-shaped frame, formerly wooden but now metal, in which a bell is suspended when it is to be swung
The large ring surrounding the breech end of the barrel It provides a connection between the barrel and the recoil system Shoulders on the gun prevent movement between the barrel and the yoke In guns designed for case ammunition, the yoke is replaced by a housing
A clamp or similar piece that embraces two other parts to hold or unite them in their respective or relative positions, as a strap connecting a slide valve to the valve stem, or the soft iron block or bar permanently connecting the pole pieces of an electromagnet, as in a dynamo
A frame or bar having its center portion bored and keyed or otherwise constructed for attachment to the rudder stock The connecting rods from the steering engine or the leads from the steering gear are connected to each end of the yoke for the purpose of turning the rudder
n An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, jugum, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language -- a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy A thousand apologies for withholding it
A heavy bar of wood fitted over the necks of two oxen to make it possible for them to pull a plow or a cart The word is used figuratively to describe the moral lessons that a teacher passes on to his pupils
(1 syl ) Greek zugon, Latin jugum, French joug, Dutch juk, German joch, Anglo-Saxon geoc (pron yoc) To pass under the yoke To suffer the disgrace of a vanquished army The Romans made a yoke of three spears- two upright and one resting on them When an army was vanquished, the soldiers had to lay down their arms and pass under this archway of spears
A yoke is a long piece of wood which is tied across the necks of two animals such as oxen, in order to make them walk close together when they are pulling a plough
stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke; "pulled by a yoke of oxen"
(1 ) Fitted on the neck of oxen for the purpose of binding to them the traces by which they might draw the plough, etc (Num 19: 2; Deut 21: 3) It was a curved piece of wood called 'ol
To yoke or yoke to is to start work for the day (or shift) Are you no yokit yet? This now chiefly Northeastern term alludes to a horse being yoked up to a plough
[ 'yOk ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English yok, from Old English geoc; akin to Old High German joh yoke, Latin jugum, Greek zygon, Sanskrit yuga, Latin jungere to join.