yoke
Beast-binding beam
A yoke is a wooden beam fitted across the necks of two draft animals, binding them together to pull a load.
From this concrete meaning comes the figurative sense of something that binds or burdens: the yoke of oppression, throw off the yoke of colonialism.
A yoke also names the fitted upper part of a garment across the shoulders or hips.
To yoke is to harness animals together, or to join things in general: yoked in marriage, yoked to a tedious job.
A yoke of oxen is a pair.
Tool for turning soil
- oxenCastrated male cattle
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
- furrowNarrow trench in earth
- cultivationFostering growth through care
harness · collar · traces · draft · team · pair · plowing · field
Binding tie or connection
pair · harness · tie · bind · unite · team · partnership · marriage
Oppressive weight or duty
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- subjugationForcing into submission
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
- enslavementForced human ownership
bondage · shackles · domination · subjection · slavery · fetters · chains · oppressor
Upper arm joint
- bodiceFitted upper garment
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- fittedShaped to conform
- seamlineWhere sewn pieces connect
dart · sleeve · waistband · neckline · panel · fabric · pleats · construction
Formal union of parties
- partnershipShared business arrangement
- collaborationJoint intellectual work
- unificationMerging into one entity
- joiningLinking into one
solidarity · cooperation · fellowship · marriage · union · bonding · togetherness · shared burden
plow
Tool for turning soil
cultivation · harness · collar · traces · draft · team · pair · plowing · field · reins
bond
Binding tie or connection
union · pair · harness · tie · bind · unite · team · partnership · marriage · couple
burden
Oppressive weight or duty
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- subjugationForcing into submission
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
enslavement · bondage · shackles · domination · subjection · slavery · fetters · chains · oppressor · liberation
shoulder
Upper arm joint
seamline · dart · sleeve · waistband · neckline · panel · fabric · pleats · construction · seam
alliance
Formal union of parties
- partnershipShared business arrangement
- collaborationJoint intellectual work
- unificationMerging into one entity
joining · solidarity · cooperation · fellowship · marriage · union · bonding · togetherness · shared burden · common purpose
- Biblical imageryLamb of God, Good Shepherd, bread of life, light of the world, living water
- chariot racingchariot, chariots, charioteer, chariot races, chariot racing
- Aviation Slangroger, mayday, pan-pan, squawk, affirmative
- aviationaircraft, airports, flying, flight, airplane
- animal transporthorse, mule, donkey, ox, camel
- burdensburden, load, onus, obligations, weight
yokeunyoke
Release from harness
separate · disconnect · unhitch · uncouple · disjoin
yokefreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · liberation · emancipation · independence · sovereignty
- under the yokeSubject to domination
- ox yokeBeam connecting draft animals
- shoulder yoke