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yoke
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yoke as in:  the yoke of bondage

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They threw off the yoke of slavery.
yoke = oppressive burden
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    The yoke of oppression weighed heavily on the people, causing them to rise up in rebellion.
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    D—DESPICABLE A—ANGRY D—DUD OF A FATHER D—DISAPPPOINTMENT Y—YOKE AROUND MY NECK  (source)
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    If ever there had been a time for the American worker to cast off the yoke, surely that was it.  (source)
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    You're going to be the one pulling this yoke, and therefore I don't have any of the pressure.  (source)
    yoke = burden
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    She heard Rochelle mutter something like, Time to take the rubber out of your wallet, Bob, or she might have said Rob, but instead of a pale flexible sheath the boy took out his living thing, stiff and pulsing and ultraviolet, there it was, suddenly unbuttoned and in the world, pretty much the configuration Klara had imagined but so hot and real, independently alive, unyoked to the host, to the bearer, the wearer, and Rochelle was nervous because the boy did not have a rubber and Klara was nervous because the Japanese might invade China.†  (source)
    unyoked = unburdened
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyoked means not and reverses the meaning of yoked. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    We are to eat here, he says, and he unyokes the bullocks to water them.†  (source)
    unyokes = unburdens
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyokes means not and reverses the meaning of yokes. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    My men stood up and made a fight of it —backed on the ships, with lances kept in play, from bright morning through the blaze of noon holding our beach, although so far outnumbered; but when the sun passed toward unyoking time, then the Akhaians, one by one, gave way.†  (source)
    unyoking = unburdening
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyoking means not and reverses the meaning of yoking. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    "They pay a tribute of horses," he answered, "and send many yearly to Mordor, or so it is said; but they are not yet under the yoke."  (source)
    yoke = controlled and worked oppressively
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    Meanwhile Fritz, having unyoked the oxen and secured them to trees, hurried to his brother's assistance.†  (source)
    unyoked = unburdened
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    Now victor at the goal Tydides stands, Quits his bright car, and springs upon the sands; From the hot steeds the sweaty torrents stream; The well-plied whip is hung athwart the beam: With joy brave Sthenelus receives the prize, The tripod-vase, and dame with radiant eyes: These to the ships his train triumphant leads, The chief himself unyokes the panting steeds.†  (source)
    unyokes = unburdens
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    Until the sun stood at high noon in heaven, spears bit on both sides, and the soldiers fell; but when the sun passed toward unyoking time, the Akhaians outfought destiny to prevail.†  (source)
    unyoking = unburdening
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    The war left the Disputed Lands a waste, and freed Lys and Myr from the yoke.  (source)
    yoke = subjugation
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    There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees.†  (source)
    unyoked = unburdened
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yoke as in:  oxen yoke

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    A yoke was used to connect the horses, so they could pull the carriage together.
    yoke = wood framework
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    Every day was a new struggle to yoke him to our purpose, keep him straight in his furrow.  (source)
    yoke = force to work under control
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    They loaded a cart with benjo waste—to be used as fertilizer, as was customary in Japan—then yoked themselves to the cart like oxen and pulled it to and from the farm.  (source)
    yoked = connected
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    The horses carried it off in cart-loads, the sheep dragged single blocks, even Muriel and Benjamin yoked themselves into an old governess-cart and did their share.  (source)
    yoked = connected (to pull together)
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    Chacko lifted the fried eggs onto the toast, broke the brilliant, wobbling yokes and spread them over the strawberry jam with the back of his teaspoon.†  (source)
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    All we needed to do was follow Him—the yoke was used for leading cattle or oxen, plowing or pulling a cart.  (source)
    yoke = a wooden frame used to control beasts of burden
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    There, suspended by one hand between the baggage-car and the tender, with the other he loosened the safety chains; but, owing to the traction, he would never have succeeded in unscrewing the yoking-bar, had not a violent concussion jolted this bar out.†  (source)
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    We go across the level plain, twenty yoke of us, till we are unyoked again, and we graze while the big guns talk across the plain to some town with mud walls, and pieces of the wall fall out, and the dust goes up as though many cattle were coming home.  (source)
    unyoked = unharnessed
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    Long as morning rose and the blessed day grew stronger we stood and fought them off, massed as they were, but then, when the sun wheeled past the hour for unyoking oxen, the Cicones broke our lines and beat us down at last.  (source)
    unyoking = removing the framework used to control beasts of burden while working
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    The next day he fetched the other pony and filled a yoked cart with supplies and the three of them walked back to his crude homestead, Schultz on foot, reins in hand, and the ponies in harness behind as they drew the cart along and listened to the creak of the dry axle.†  (source)
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    As one, the peasants rushed forward, their eyes not on the patient, but on the money, their hats flying in the wind, their yokes forgotten.†  (source)
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    Anion stopped by the yoke, and Percy set to work with the reins and harness.  (source)
    yoke = a wooden frame used to control beasts of burden
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    Then yoking mules and oxen to their wagons the people thronged before the city gates.†  (source)
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rare meaning

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    When the officer took the yoke, Louie began tugging the chains, making the plane swoop up and down.  (source)
    yoke = a control apparatus for an airplane
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    The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, the sleeves are full.  (source)
    yoke = a clothing item from which fabric is hung
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    "Paralysis" is a word that fascinates the young boy, quite apart from its meaning; he yokes it with "simony" and "gnomon" in a triad of words to obsess over.  (source)
    yokes = connects
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    She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.  (source)
    yoke = a clothing item from which fabric is hung
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    During the flight, they sat him in the copilot's seat while Louie hid under the navigator's table, next to the chains that linked the plane's yokes to the control surfaces.  (source)
    yokes = control apparatuses
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    The largest of them showed the last survivors of a defeated Valyrian army passing beneath the yoke and being chained.  (source)
    yoke = a structure under which defeated soldiers would march to symbolize their subjugation to the conqueror
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    Yoke on the further billows; hallo! a tandem, I drive the sea!  (source)
    Yoke = work
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    Phil gripped the yoke, sweat streaming down his face.  (source)
    yoke = a control apparatus for an airplane
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    Then the weight of the stricken pilot on the yoke forced the Zero down, ducking under the bomber.  (source)
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    He put both feet on the yoke and pushed as hard as he could.  (source)
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    If Phil kept his feet on the yoke and pushed hard, he could stop the plane from flipping.  (source)
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    At the yoke was Paul Tibbets, a veteran bomber pilot.  (source)
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    Because pilots usually manned the yoke with their left hands while their right hands worked the other controls, B-24 pilots were instantly recognizable when shirtless, because the muscles on their left arms dwarfed those on their right arms.  (source)
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