verb
definition
To link or to join.
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To unite, to connect.
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To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine.
adjective
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Wearing a yoke.
example
The yoked oxen stood ready.
definition
Having large and well-defined muscles particularly at the neck and the trapezii (forming thus the “yoke“).
example
By the end of his fourth year of weight-lifting, Lee was yoked.
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Married.
example
They got yoked four years ago.
Examples of yoked in a Sentence
Oxen, usually yoked in teams of eight, were used for ploughing.
Two horses, yoked on either side of the pole, pulled the chariot, which was driven by a charioteer.
Others are unequally yoked to unbelievers, every day proving how unequal the yoke is.
She drove twelve spotted horses yoked to the high band wagon of a road circus.
Then the hide was stuffed with grass and yoked to a plough; the participants were charged with ox murder and each laid the blame on the other; finally the axe was thrown into the sea.
Although the traditional Hawaiian wedding dress, known at a holoku, was a fitted, yoked gown, today's Hawaiian wedding gowns offer dozens of style choices.
The isolated the motion parallax cue by constructing a random dot display that was yoked to the movement of the head.
Unwilling to go, he feigned madness, ploughing a field sown with salt with an ox and an ass yoked together; but Palamedes discovered his deceit by placing his infant child Telemachus in front of the plough; Odysseus afterwards revenged himself by compassing the death of Palamedes.
Another ritual, fascinating for the glimpse it affords of very old-world thought, is that of the Diipolia, the yearly sacrifice to Zeus Polieus on the Acropolis at Athens.6 In this an ox was slaughtered with ceremonies unique in Greece; the priest who slew him fled and remained in exile for a period, and the axe that was used was tried, condemned and flung into the sea; the hide of the slain ox was stuffed with hay, and this effigy of the ox was yoked to the plough and feigned to be alive.
Ten days later, the plaintiff crossed the fence in upon the land, with a law agent, a witness and a pair of horses yoked or harnessed, and in a loud voice stated the amount of the debt and called upon the defendant to pay it according to law.
There are native names for the plough, so it may be assumed that some form of that implement, worked by oxen, yoked together with a simple straight yoke, was in use in early times.
He obtains a magic glass cage, yoked with eight griffins, flies through the clouds, and, thanks to enchanters who know the language of birds, gets information as to their manners and customs, and ultimately receives their submission.
The autumnal subsidence of the river was followed by shallow ploughing performed by oxen yoked to clumsy wooden ploughs, the clods being afterwards levelled with wooden hoes by hand.