yoke
verb/jəʊk/
/jəʊk/
[usually passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they yoke | /jəʊk/ /jəʊk/ |
| he / she / it yokes | /jəʊks/ /jəʊks/ |
| past simple yoked | /jəʊkt/ /jəʊkt/ |
| past participle yoked | /jəʊkt/ /jəʊkt/ |
| -ing form yoking | /ˈjəʊkɪŋ/ /ˈjəʊkɪŋ/ |
- to join two animals together with a yoke; to attach an animal to something with a yoke
- (be) yoked together A pair of oxen, yoked together, was used.
- (be) yoked to something an ox yoked to a plough
- (formal) to bring two people, countries, ideas, etc. together so that they are forced into a close relationship
- be yoked to something The Hong Kong dollar was yoked to the American dollar for many years.
- be yoked together In these languages, short words are yoked together to create new words.
Word OriginOld English geoc (noun), geocian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch juk, German Joch, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin jugum and Greek zugon, also by Latin jungere ‘to join’.
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