All 3 Uses of
yoke
in
Moby Dick
- It was the whaleman who first broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it might be distinctly shown how from those whalemen at last eventuated the liberation of Peru, Chili, and Bolivia from the yoke of Old Spain, and the establishment of the eternal democracy in those parts.†
Chpt 22-24
- I, too, want a harpoon made; one that a thousand yoke of fiends could not part, Perth; something that will stick in a whale like his own fin-bone.†
Chpt 112-114
- Yoke on the further billows; hallo! a tandem, I drive the sea!†
Chpt 124-126 *
Definition:
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(yoke as in: the yoke of bondage) an oppressive burden