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yoked

[ yohkt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

First recorded in 2000–05; yoke ¹( def ) (in the sense “the trapezius and deltoid muscles considered together”) + -ed ³( def )

But does South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford really deserve to be yoked to David Vitter, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, and John Ensign?

Those that I now saw were yoked in twos or threes to large waggons, full of stones for mending the roads.

He returned next day with two small black bulls yoked to a pair of wheels such as are used by lumbermen.

Two of the horses were yoked together, one on each side of the tongue, the others were attached to the car merely by traces.

Then he yoked his oxen, and drew the turnip to the court, and gave it to the king.

Yoked to a sort of plough, Bright and Broad, the oxen, tore through the piled-up snow and threw it to either side in great ridges.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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