All 32 Uses of

yoke
in
The Iliad

For my part I shall offer at your altar a virgin heifer, a yearling, never yoked, her horns all sheathed in gold.†
Book 10 *

Automedon yoked the fast horses for him— Xanthos and Balios, racers of wind.†
Book 16

Automedon and Alkimos with swift hands yoked his team, making firm the collars on the horses, placing the bits between their teeth, and pulling reins to the war-car.†
Book 19

Akhilleus finished, and the drivers gathered, first of all Admetos' dear son, Lord Eumelos, best at management of horses; then powerful Diomedes, son of Tydeus, yoking the Trojan horses he had taken from Aineias when Apollo saved the man.†
Book 23

The first dawn, brightening sea and shore, became familiar to him, as at that hour he yoked his team, with Hektor tied behind, to drag him out, three times around Patroklos' tomb.†
Book 24

So the impatient king and his sage crier had their animals yoked in the palace yard when Hekabe in her agitation joined them, carrying in her right hand a golden cup of honeyed wine, with which, before they left, they might make offering.†
Book 24

Hermes yoked the mules and horses, took the reins, then inland like the wind he drove through all the encampment, seen by no one.†
Book 24

Then yoking mules and oxen to their wagons the people thronged before the city gates.†
Book 24

Hebe fitted to the tip a handsome golden yoke, and added collars all soft gold.†
Book 5

The goddess put her hand upon the yoke that joined his battle-team, and said: "Ah, yes, a far cry from his father, Tydeus' son.†
Book 5

When they arrived in range of one another, Ares, breasting his adversary's horses, rifled his spear over the yoke and reins with murderous aim.†
Book 5

They led from under the yokes their sweating teams, tethering each beside his chariot, then brought down from the city beeves and sheep in all haste brought down wine and bread as well out of their halls.†
Book 8

You know how, round the base of each curved horn, the sweat pours out, and how one smooth-worn yoke will hold the oxen close, cutting a furrow to the fields edge?†
Book 13

He called to Terror and Rout to yoke his horses while he put on his shining gear.†
Book 15

The team shied and strained apart with a great creak of the yoke as reins were tangled over the dead weight of their outrider fallen.†
Book 16

To this, from under the yoke, the nimble Xanthos answered, and hung his head, so that his mane dropped forward from the yokepad to the ground— Hera whose arms are white as ivory gave him a voice to say: "Yes, we shall save you, this time, too, Akhilleus in your strength!†
Book 19

As when a countryman yokes oxen with broad brows to tread out barley on a well-bedded threshing floor, and quickly the grain is husked under the bellowing beasts: the sharp-hooved horses of Akhilleus just so crushed dead men and shields.†
Book 20

Now Akhilleus ordered his veteran Myrmidons to arm and yoke their horses to the chariots.†
Book 23

She darted after him to give the whip back, and revive his horses, then in anger overtook Eumelos and cracked his yoke in two.†
Book 23

Then he swung from the glittering car and propped his long whip on the yoke.†
Book 23

Dreading the rough edge of their fathers tongue, they lifted out a cart, a cargo wagon, neat and maneuverable, and newly made, and fixed upon it a wicker box; then took a mule yoke from a peg, a yoke of boxwood knobbed in front, with rings to hold the reins.†
Book 24

Dreading the rough edge of their fathers tongue, they lifted out a cart, a cargo wagon, neat and maneuverable, and newly made, and fixed upon it a wicker box; then took a mule yoke from a peg, a yoke of boxwood knobbed in front, with rings to hold the reins.†
Book 24

They brought out, too, the band nine forearms long called the yoke-fastener, and placed the yoke forward at the shank of the polished pole, shoving the yoke-pin firmly in.†
Book 24

They brought out, too, the band nine forearms long called the yoke-fastener, and placed the yoke forward at the shank of the polished pole, shoving the yoke-pin firmly in.†
Book 24

They brought out, too, the band nine forearms long called the yoke-fastener, and placed the yoke forward at the shank of the polished pole, shoving the yoke-pin firmly in.†
Book 24

They looped three turns of the yoke-fastener round the knob and wound it over and over down the pole, tucking the tab end under.†
Book 24

It was time to yoke the mule-team, strong in harness, with hard hooves, a team the Mysians had given Priam.†
Book 24

Definitions:

(1) (yoke as in: the yoke of bondage)
an oppressive burden or something that limits freedom
(2) (yoke as in: oxen yoke)
a wooden frame used to join beasts of burden so they pull together, or a connected pair, or the connecting of a pair
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

See a comprehensive dictionary for less common senses of the word including:
- a clothing item from which fabric is hung
- a control apparatus for an airplane or ship