n. In carpentry, the cross-piece at the head of a wooden window-frame, which forms the head of a window as the sill forms the foot. Compare head-sill.n. A contrivance of great antiquity, by which a pair of draft-animals, particularly oxen, are fastened together, usually consisting of a piece of timber, hollowed or made curving near each end, and fitted with bows for receiving the necks of the animals.n. Hence, something resembling this apparatus in form or use.n. A frame of wood attached to the neck of an animal to prevent it from creeping under a fence or gate, or from jumping over a fence.n. A cross-bar or curved piece from which a large bell is suspended for ringing.n. Nautical, a bar attached to the rudder-head, and projecting in each direction sidewise. To the ends are attached the yoke-ropes or yoke-lines, which are pulled by the steersman in rowboats, or pass to the drum on the axis of the steering-wheel in larger craft.n. A kind of band or supporting piece to which are fastened the plaited, gathered, or otherwise falling and depending parts of a garment, and which by its shape causes these parts to hang in a certain way: as, the yoke of a shirt, which is a double piece of stuff carried around the neck and over the shoulders, and from which the whole body of the shirt hangs; the yoke of a skirt, which supports the fullness from the hips downward.n. A branch-pipe, or a two-way coupling for pipes, particularly twin hot- and cold-water pipes that unite in their discharge.n. In a grain-elevator, the head-frame or top of the elevator, where the elevator-belt or lifter passes over the upper drum, and where the cups discharge into the shoot.n. A carriage-clip for uniting two parts of the running-gear.n. A double journal-bearing having two journals united by bars or rods, that pass on each side of the pulley, the shafting being supported by both journals: used in some forms of dynamos to carry the armature; a yoke-arbor.n. A pair of iron clamps of semicircular shape, with a cross screw and nut at each end for tightening them around heavy pipes or other objects, for attaching the ropes when hoisting or lowering into position by power.n. In wheelwrighting, the overlap tire-bolt washer used at the joints of the fellies.n. (I) In an electromagnet consisting of two parallel cores joined across one pair of ends to form a U- or horseshoe-shaped magnet, the cross-bar joining the ends is called the yoke of the magnet.n. An emblem, token, or mark of servitude, slavery, and sometimes of suffering generally.n. Something which couples, connects, or binds together; a bond of connection; a link; a tie.n. A chain or ridge of hills; also, a single hill in a chain: obsolete, but still retained in some place-names: as, Troutbeck Yoke.n. A pair; couple; brace: said of things united by some link, especially of draft-animals: very rarely of persons, in contempt.n. As much land as may be plowed by a pair of oxen in a day; hence, as much work generally as is done at a stretch; also, a part of the working-day, as from meal-time to meal-time, in which labor is carried on without interruption. Compare yokelet.n. Synonyms Brace, etc. See pair.To put a yoke on.To join or couple by means of a yoke.To join; couple; link; unite.To restrain; confine; oppress; enslave.To put horses or other draft-animals to. Compare the colloquial phrase to harness a wagon.To be joined together; go along with.n. A dialectal variant of yox, yex. Also yolk.