Yokes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for YOKES in dictionary:

VERB:
• YOKE, to join (animals, slaves) together wth a wooden frame
• put a yoke on (a pair of animals); couple or attach with or to a yoke
• cause (two people or things) to be joined in a close relationship
NOUN:
• a wooden crosspiece that is fastened over the necks of two animals and attached to the plough or cart that they are to pull.
• used to refer to something regarded as oppressive or restrictive
• (in ancient Rome) an arch of three spears representing a yoke, under which a defeated army was made to march.
• a pair of animals yoked together
• the amount of land that one pair of oxen could plough in a day.
• a part of a garment that fits over the shoulders and to which the main part of the garment is attached
• a frame fitting over the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying pails or baskets.
• the crossbar of a rudder.
• a bar of soft iron between the poles of an electromagnet.
• a control lever in an aircraft.
• a thing whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fit with a yoke (a wooden frame for joining together draft animals)

Words related to YOKES

yoke11 yoked13 yoking14

Words that contain YOKES

unyokes14 disyokes16 misyokes17

How to use YOKES in a sentence

• That same day he hired out to a Mormon train, and bidding us all good-bye started for Salt Lake, driving six yokes of oxen.
• These wagons were generally sent out from Leavenworth, each loaded with six thousand pounds of freight, and each drawn by several yokes of oxen in charge of one driver.
• I recollect, if my memory serves me, that a few guns were spoken of, but nothing about yokes.
• Wherever there were chains to rend and yokes to break, you were seen to hasten.
• And it is not certain, that with this aid alone they would not be able to shake off their yokes.
• Prepare exactly as for Plain White Soup, but just before serving beat up the yokes of 2 or 3 eggs.
• Then mix well with the butter and sugar, adding the yokes first and the whites last.
• Water-dykes were let into the fields on every side, and peasants, with their yokes of oxen, were engaged in bringing water from the wells and streams.
• Oxen, wagons, ox yokes, ox bows, cattle, covers for wagons, arms, ammunition and provisions were purchased and brought to the plantation.
• The cattle strained at their yokes, and the huge, clumsy, English-built team creaked over the road, and groaned as though offering strong remonstrance against the journey.
• Here we sent back the two yokes of animals which we had brought from Jiquipilas, and secured a fine, strong beast to make up our number, and started.
• Now and again sledges laden with ponderous burdens were drawn through the sand by yokes of oxen, oftener by scores of men, on whom the drivers did not hesitate to lay the lash.
• During a large part of the first thirty years of His life He worked with the hammer and the plane, making ploughs and yokes and household furniture.
• The rattling of chains and ox yokes, and the cursing of men ruptured the stillness that had gathered round the moment of death.
• They want, in their rage, to put aside all checks, to throw off all yokes, to free themselves from the most sacred bonds, to escape from the most salutary restraints.
• The ox wore yokes that sometime weigh a hundred or more pounds.
• The reason of that, they were so mean they had to wear them yokes to hold em down.
• Justin Martyr mentions, as a tradition of his time, that Jesus assisted his foster-father in making yokes and ploughs.
• They fixed up a wagon for him, and yokes enough could be found where people had traded off their oxen for horses.
• In fact some of these are so large that they would have required ten yokes of oxen to have dragged them along on a fit carriage.
• Burdens of all sizes and of infinite variety swept by on swaying shoulder yokes.
• Vâyu yokes the two ruddy, Vâyu yokes the two red horses, Vâyu yokes to the chariot the two swift horses to draw in the yoke, the strongest to draw in the yoke.
• The foremost yokes of oxen had bells hung round their necks, which they shook as they moved along, adding their blithe melody to the general hilarious sounds.

Similar words containing YOKE without suffix s

yoke11 yoked13 yokel12 yoker12 unyoke13 yokels13 yokers13 disyoke15 misyoke16 unyoked15 unyokes14 yokered15 disyoked17 disyokes16 misyoked18 misyokes17 yokeless15 yokelish18 yokemate17 yokering16 yokemates18 yokefellow23 yokefellows24

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