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yoked, ppl. a.
(jəʊkt, poet. ˈjəʊkɪd)
[f. yoke n.1 + -ed.]
1. Coupled by a yoke, as a pair of draught-animals; also, attached to a vehicle or plough, as a draught-animal.
c1480Henryson Test. Cress. 209 This goldin Cart..Four ȝokkit steidis..throw the Spheiris drew. c1485Digby Myst. ii. 119 He was nother horse ne mare, nor yet yokyd sow. c1550Cheke Matt. xxi. 5 A foole of an iooked as. 1568Howell Arb. Amitie 24 The yoked Oxe doth smell his strawie stall. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 42 The Septentrions call them Triones, that is yoked Oxen. 1716in Cramond Ann. Banff (1893) II. 86 John Gregor cited for going with his yoked horse through the country on the Sabbath day. 1819Chalmers Serm., Job ix. 30–33, 124 The yoked and the tortured negro is compelled to yield to the whip of the overseer. 1902Fairbairn Philos. Chr. Relig. ii. iv. 384 The yoked oxen plough the fields.
2. Connected, coupled, linked; in Bot. said of a leaf consisting of one or more pairs of opposite leaflets; now called conjugate (a. 4 a), jugate (a. 1).
1551T. Wilson Logic K v, Yoked wordes whiche beyng deriued of one, are chaunged in the speakyng. 1807J. E. Smith Phys. Bot. (1814) 137 Conjugatum, conjugate, or yoked [leaf], consists of only a pair of pinnæ or leaflets, and is much the same as binatum. 1829T. Castle Introd. Bot. 70 It is said to be simply yoked, when one pair only of opposite leaflets, is supported on the common foot-stalk... Double-yoked—when there are two pairs, and so on.
3. Carried on a yoke, as a pail; furnished with a yoke, as a garment: see yoke n.1 3, 3 b.
1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt Introd. 6 At the well, clean and comely women carrying yoked buckets. 1913Play Pictorial No. 133. 78/3 With an original trimming of diamanté on the yoked back and down the fronts. |