<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>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.</li><li>a pair of draft animals fastened together by a yoke: five yoke of oxen.</li><li>something resembling a yoke or a bow of a yoke in form or use.</li><li>a frame fitting the neck and shoulders of a person, for carrying a pair of buckets or the like, one at each end.</li><li>an agency of oppression, subjection, servitude, etc.</li><li>an emblem or symbol of subjection, servitude, slavery, etc., as an archway under which prisoners of war were compelled to pass by the ancient Romans and others.</li><li>something that couples or binds together; a bond or tie.</li><li>Machinery: a viselike piece gripping two parts firmly together.</li><li>a fitting for the neck of a draft animal for suspending the tongue of a cart, carriage, etc., from a harness.</li><li>a crosshead attached to the upper piston of an opposed-piston engine with rods to transmit power to the crankshaft.</li><li>(in an airplane) a double handle, somewhat like a steering wheel in form, by which the elevators are controlled.</li><li>Nautical: a crossbar on the head of the rudder of a small boat, having lines or chains attached to the ends so as to permit the steering of the boat from forward.</li><li>a shaped piece in a garment, fitted about or below the neck and shoulders or about the hips, from which the rest of the garment hangs.</li><li>a horizontal piece forming the top of a window frame.</li><li>a Y-shaped piece connecting branch pipes with a main soil pipe.</li><li>an electromagnetic assembly placed around the neck of a cathode-ray tube to produce and control the scanning motion of electron beams inside the tube.</li><li>(British Dialect) the time during which a plowman and team work without stopping; a period of plowing.</li><li>a measure or area of land equal to over 50 but less than 60 acres.</li><li>a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter Y.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to put a yoke on; join or couple by means of a yoke.</li><li>to attach (a draft animal) to a plow or vehicle: to yoke oxen.</li><li>to harness a draft animal to (a plow or vehicle): to yoke a wagon.</li><li>to join, couple, link, or unite.</li><li>Obsolete: to bring into subjection or servitude.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to be or become joined, linked, or united.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>