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    [Noun]  | "yoke" | \ ˈyōk \


    1: a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together

    2: an arched device formerly laid on the neck of a defeated person

    3: a frame fitted to a person's shoulders to carry a load in two equal portions

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English yok, from Old English geoc; akin to Old High German joh yoke, Latin jugum, Greek zygon, Sanskrit yuga, Latin jungere to join;

    [Noun]  | "yolk" | \ ˈyōk \


    1: the yellow spheroidal mass of stored food that forms the inner portion of the egg of a bird or reptile and is surrounded by the white

    2: the whole contents of an animal ovum consisting of a protoplasmic formative portion and an inert nutritive portion

    3: material stored in an animal ovum that supplies food to the developing embryo and consists chiefly of proteins, lecithin, and cholesterol

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English yolke, from Old English geoloca, from geolu yellow {mat|yellow|};

    [Verb]  | "yoke" 


    1: to put a yoke on

    2: to join in or with a yoke

    3: to attach a draft animal to; also : to attach (a draft animal) to something

    Origin: before 12th century ;

    [Noun]  | "yoke" 


    1: the state of being an enslaved person;


      * e.g., " ... a people able at last to throw off the yoke and to embrace freedom "




    [Verb]  | "yoke" 


    1: to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole;


      * e.g., " ... yoked several ideas together to come up with a new theory "




     [ "yoke" ]

    1: these days in Ireland, a Yoke refers to almost *anything*

      * e.g.,  ... "how do you get this feckin yoke to work?" - computer 

     [ "yoke" ]

    1:  Thing, as in, the yoke over there.

      * e.g.,  ... "That fucking thing, the fucking whatchamacallit, the yoke!" 

     [ "yoke" ]

    2:  Ecstasy tablets

      * e.g.,  ... "I took a few yokes and was off me chops for the whole night"  

     [ "yoke" ]

    1: A term commonly used by the inbred farming community in Mid Ulster especially around Magherafelt/Cookstown which refers to a car or basically anything that they cannot describe accurately.

      * e.g.,  ... Thon's some yoke.... roughly translates as That is a very nice car you have. 

     [ "yoke" ]

    1: a tablet of XTC

      * e.g.,  ... how much for a yoke 

     [ "yoke" ]

    1: spinning your tires, doing donuts, dipn(gas-breakn)

      * e.g.,  ... he yoked his 0 at the sideshow all night 

     [ "yoke" ]

    1: A headlock.

     [ "yoke" ]

    1: grabbing someone around the neck and not letting go

      * e.g.,  ... "i got you in a damm good yoke bitch" 

     [ "yoke" ]

    1: A playful, aggressive or intimidating (or sensual) gesture of brushing (touching) the chin of another person with your hand quickly, in order to get a bizzare reaction out of the other person.

      * e.g.,  ... A yoked B. 

     [ "yoke" ]

    1: A person who is a joke or of a youthful sense of humor.

      * e.g.,  ... Why is Dan Hard in a public place? What a yoke! 

     [ "yoke" ]

    1: A thunderous dunk. Dunking a basketball with force.

      * e.g.,  ... "Ben Wallace caught a yoke off the rim!" 

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