ȝok
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English ġeoc, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɔk/, /jɔːk/
Noun
ȝok (plural ȝokkes)
- A yoke (tool for attaching beasts of burden to a farm instrument).
- A group of beasts of burden yoked at a yoke.
- The agreement and union of marriage.
- Compliance; the imposition of constraints, especially from one's own will.
- Cruelty or subjection to cruelty.
- Something that looks like a yoke.
- (rare) A challenge, burden or load.
Related terms
References
- “yōke (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-25.
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