yokes
Oppression emblems, metaphorically
Yokes is the plural of yoke, a wooden crosspiece fastening two draft animals together for pulling.
The term extends to any binding or burden: the yokes of oppression, throw off your yokes.
In clothing, a yoke is the fitted part across the shoulders or hips from which the rest of the garment hangs.
In Irish and Irish-American slang, yokes means things or stuff, often pills or ecstasy tablets: Have you got any yokes?
Unjust exercise of power
- subjugationForcing into submission
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
- enslavementForced human ownership
burden · shackles · chains · fetters · bondage · captivity · domination · subjection
Tool for turning soil
- plowingTurning earth for crops
- draftPreliminary version of text
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- teamOrganized cooperative unit
harness · traces · breeching · furrow · tillage · farming · agriculture · fieldwork
Joint between systems
- connectionA joining or relation
- linkageConnected system of parts
- crossbarHorizontal bar between uprights
- beamStructural support member
frame · bracket · fastening · attachment · bond · tie · paired · joined
oppression
Unjust exercise of power
- subjugationForcing into submission
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
enslavement · burden · shackles · chains · fetters · bondage · captivity · domination · subjection · thrall
plow
Tool for turning soil
- plowingTurning earth for crops
- draftPreliminary version of text
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
team · harness · traces · breeching · furrow · tillage · farming · agriculture · fieldwork · husbandry
coupling
Joint between systems
- connectionA joining or relation
- linkageConnected system of parts
- crossbarHorizontal bar between uprights
beam · frame · bracket · fastening · attachment · bond · tie · paired · joined · linked
shoulder
Upper arm joint
blouse · dress · shirt · tailoring · neckline · fabric · panel · construction · sewing · pattern
whites
Pale-colored items collectively
separating · cooking · beaten · broken · raw · poached · fried · double · golden · rich
- farm antiquesbutter churns, milk cans, milk bottles, egg baskets, cowbells
- farm heritagefarmstead, barns, farm tools, farmhouses, barn dance
- farming historypeasant farming, crop rotation, enclosures, manorialism, threshing machine
- shirt makingsewing, stitching, fabric cutting, pattern making, button sewing
- rural lifefarms, village, villages, farming, farmhouses
- pioneer toolshand tools, spinning wheels, looms, butter churns, axes
yokesunyokes
Disconnects harnessed animals
separates · disconnects · disjoins · uncouples · detaches
yokesfrees
Removes from captivity
liberates · emancipates · releases · unburdens · unshackles
- under the yokeSubject to domination
- ox yokeBeam connecting draft animals
- shoulder yoke