Yoke

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.

   “Thy seruant in walking thy pastures aboute: / for yokes, forkes and rakes, let him loke to finde oute. / And after at leyser let this be his hier: / to trimme them and make them at home by the fier.”

2. isim Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.

   “Steam Engines. […] The valve rods are coupled by connecting-rods […] and yokes[…], to eccentrics[…].”

3. isim A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole.

   “And whenever to rest she her buckets set down, / She jingled her yokes to and fro, / And her yokes she might jingle till morn—a rude clown, / Ere he it seem'd offered to go.”

4. isim Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.
5. isim A similar device used as a game controller.
6. isim well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.

   “Nothing says you're a dedicated lifter and true athlete more than a massive yoke—that is, the muscles of the neck, traps, and rear delts.”

7. isim The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes.

   “The country children thereabouts wore their dresses to their shoe-tops, but this city child was dressed in what was then called the "Kate Greenaway" manner, and her red cashmere frock, gathered full from the yoke, came almost to the floor.”

8. isim Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”).
9. isim The electromagnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a cathode ray tube.
10. isim A Y-shaped stand used to support a blowpipe or punty while reheating in the glory hole.
11. isim A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered; in modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.

    “A light whale-boat, handsomely painted, and fitted out with stern seats, yoke, tiller-ropes, &c. hung on the starboard quarter, and was used as the gig. […] The bow-man had charge of the boat-hook and painter, and the coxswain of the rudder, yoke, and stern-sheets.”

12. isim A frame or convex crosspiece from which a bell is hung.
13. isim A collar placed on the neck of a conquered person or prisoner to restrain movement.
14. isim A frame placed on the neck of an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.

    “Strong yoke for a hog, with a twicher and rings, / with tar in a tarpot, for dangerous things: […]”

15. isim Chiefly in pass under the yoke: a raised yoke (sense 1.1), or a symbolic yoke formed from two spears installed upright in the ground with another spear connecting their tops, under which a defeated army was made to march as a sign of subjugation.
16. isim A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something.

    “I have bought fyve yooke of oxẽ [oxen]⸝ ãd I must goo to prove thẽ⸝ I praye the have me excuſed.”

17. isim A pair of things linked in some way.

    “[T]heſe that accuſe him in his intent towards our wiues, are a yoake of his diſcarded men: very rogues, now they be out of ſeruice.”

18. isim A carriage, a horse and cart; (by extension, generally) a car or other vehicle.

    “[…] I missed the train home and I couldn't get any kind of a yoke to give me a lift for, as luck would have it, there was a mass meeting that same day over in Castletownroche and all the cars in the country were there.”

19. isim A miscellaneous object; a gadget.

    “These three yokes [AK-47s] we're throwin' them up to them [CIRA]^([sic]) either way…”

20. isim A chap, a fellow.
21. fiil To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.

    “Bubulcus, […] An oxeheard, or coweheard: a driuer of oxen and kine: he that yoketh oxen, and […] goeth to plowe with them.”

22. fiil To put (one's arm or arms) around someone's neck, waist, etc.; also, to surround (someone's neck, waist, etc.) with one's arms.
23. fiil To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something.
24. fiil To place a collar on the neck of (a conquered person or prisoner) to restrain movement.
25. fiil To place a frame on the neck of (an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose) to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
26. fiil To bring (two or more people or things) into a close relationship (often one that is undesired); to connect, to link, to unite.

    “Ranchers were yoked together with farmers on the issue.”

27. fiil To bring into or keep (someone) in bondage or a state of submission; to enslave or subject to confine, to restrain; to oppress, to subjugate.

    “For thys frayltie, that yoketh all mankynde, / Thou shalt awake, and rue this mysereye: / Rue on Syon.”

28. fiil To be joined to (another person) in wedlock (often with the implication that it is a burdensome state); to be or become married to (someone).

    “God ſir be a man, / Thinke euery bearded fellow, that's but yoak'd, / May draw with you, […]”

29. fiil To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with.

    “[I]f you will paſſe / To where you are bound, you muſt enquire your way, / Which you are out of, with a gentler ſpirit, / Or neuer be ſo Noble as a Conſull, / Nor yoake with him for Tribune.”

30. fiil To be or become joined in wedlock; to be married, to wed.

    “God forbid, that I ſhould wiſh them ſeuer'd, / Whom God hath ioyn'd together: / I, and 'twere pittie, to ſunder them, / That yoake ſo well together.”