How to pronounce yoke
American English pronunciation
YOHK
- IPA
- /ˈjoʊk/
- Syllables
- YOHK (1 syllable)
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What yoke means
A wooden bar that joins two animals so they can pull together
In a sentence: The farmer put the yoke on the two oxen so they could pull the cart.
Where it comes from: It goes back to a very old root meaning "to join." The word "yoga" comes from the same root.
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Another meaning
The fitted part of a shirt across the shoulders
In a sentence: Grandma sewed a yoke of blue cloth across the shoulders of my new shirt.
Where it comes from: It is the same word as the yoke that joins two oxen, from the Old English geoc. The shirt part sits across the shoulders the way that wooden bar does.
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