All 5 Uses of
yoke
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- To yoke me as his yokefellow, our crimes our common cause.†
Chpt 3 *
- —Corny might have given us a more commodious yoke, Mr Power said.†
Chpt 6
- The bride who was given away by her father, the M'Conifer of the Glands, looked exquisitely charming in a creation carried out in green mercerised silk, moulded on an underslip of gloaming grey, sashed with a yoke of broad emerald and finished with a triple flounce of darkerhued fringe, the scheme being relieved by bretelles and hip insertions of acorn bronze.†
Chpt 12
- Henceforth you are unmanned and mine in earnest, a thing under the yoke.†
Chpt 15
- A yoke of buckets leopards all over him and his rearing nag a torrent of mutton broth with dancing coins of carrots, barley, onions, turnips, potatoes.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(yoke as in: the yoke of bondage) an oppressive burden