Antonyms for yoke

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : yohk

Phonetic Transcription : yoʊk

Definition of yoke

Origin : Old English geoc "yoke," earlier geoht "pair of draft animals," from Proto-Germanic *yukam (cf. Old Saxon juk, Old Norse ok, Danish aag, Middle Dutch joc, Dutch juk, Old High German joh, German joch, Gothic juk "yoke"), from PIE *jugom "joining" (see jugular). Figurative sense of "heavy burden, oppression, servitude" was in Old English.

noun bondage, bond
verb bond together; join

Example sentences :

He riveted on the gods his enemies the yoke which had been resting on them.
Extract from : « The Babylonian Legends of the Creation » by British Museum

They may win, and if they do, it will be our necks that will be put into the yoke--or the halter.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

The yoke of the Genoese continued longest, and was the heaviest.
Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey

The smoking cattle held their noses low, and swayed beneath the yoke.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

Once it was so huge that three hundred yoke of oxen could hardly move it.
Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis

I go out at daybreak, driving the oxen to field, and I yoke them to the plough.
Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield

The farmers from Euclid and Newburgh came in with twenty-eight yoke of cattle.
Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin

How often, and how soon, would she throw off the yoke if she could!
Extract from : « Slavery Ordained of God » by Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.

Attached to the oxen in any other way than by a yoke, the plough would be intolerable.
Extract from : « Pax Vobiscum » by Henry Drummond

I was wondering if you could ever pass under the yoke again.
Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens

Synonyms for yoke

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