yokefellow
Americannoun
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an associate or companion, especially at work; partner.
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a spouse.
noun
Etymology
Origin of yokefellow
Example Sentences
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A gaunt, brown dog, of middle size, was his yokefellow.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach
Yes, one: the same grim yokefellow whose delight it is 'to gather roses in the spring' paid ghastly court to her faded charms, and won her—who shall say an unwilling bride?
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 421 Volume 17, New Series, January 24, 1852 by William Chambers
At New Brunswick he saw and heard with profound admiration Gilbert Tennent, thenceforth his friend and yokefellow.
From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
"Let not Greece," said he, "be lamed, and thus Athens herself be deprived of her yokefellow."
From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers
The ever-young spirit will have for true yokefellow a body that cannot tire, nor grow old, nor die.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren
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