Definitions For Yoke

noun

  • Stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team
  • Fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment
  • A connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
  • Support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end
  • A pair of draft animals joined by a yoke
  • Two items of the same kind
  • An oppressive power
  • A bar or frame that is attached to the heads or necks of two work animals (such as oxen) so that they can pull a plow or heavy load
  • Something that causes people to be treated cruelly and unfairly especially by taking away their freedom

verb

  • Put a yoke on or join with a yoke
  • Link with or as with a yoke
  • Become joined or linked together
  • To connect (two animals) by a yoke

Is Yoke a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
11
Words with Friends
10

The word Yoke is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Yoke in a Sentence

  • A people able at last to throw off the yoke and to embrace freedom
  • The two oxen were yoked together.
  • yoked several ideas together to come up with a new theory

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Antonyms for Yoke

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