yoke
noun
a device for joining together a pair of draft animals, especially oxen, usually consisting of a crosspiece with two bow-shaped pieces, each enclosing the head of an animal.
have yoked
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present perfectof yoke.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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What he set out to avoid was a retread of the fusions that have yoked jazz and Indian music in the past, especially that of John McLaughlin’s Shakti, another chamberesque acoustic ensemble.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2011
Yet they have yoked their skills to the plowshare of contemporary design.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, after all, why not have yoked him according to his own original inclinations, and suffered him to pull where he would pull cheerfully?
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey
"And when you have yoked May Holt with the most notorious detrimental in Simla, and earned the undying hatred of Mamma Holt, what will you do with me, Dispenser of the Destinies of the Universe?"
From The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling
So I have yoked to mine when, enter my mother, looking wistful.
From Margaret Ogilvy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
