Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Yoked"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Yoke \Yoke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Yoked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Yoking}.]
1. To put a yoke on; to join in or with a yoke; as, to yoke
oxen, or pair of oxen.

2. To couple; to join with another. ``Be ye not unequally
yoked with unbelievers.'' --2 Cor. vi. 14.

Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb. --Shak.

3. To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to
confine.

Then were they yoked with garrisons. --Milton.

The words and promises that yoke The conqueror are
quickly broke. --Hudibras.


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