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ˈyoke-mate
[f. yoke n.1 + mate n.2]
= yoke-fellow. Chiefly fig. So yoke-mated a. (rare).
c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 276 [She] all to beat her yokemate with a washbutte. 1581Marbeck Bk. Notes 1015 [1013] He had to his yoke mate one Helen. 1581Hanmer Jesuites Banner G 4 b, Neyther may they bee ioyned as yokemates, to drawe in the vineyarde of the Church. 1684J. S. Profit & Pleas. United 10 Some were wont to yoke them together,..putting one of them yoke⁓mate with an Ox. 1704Swift T. Tub Ep. Ded., He is a worthy yokemate to his forementioned friend. 1776G. Campbell Philos. Rhet. II. 296 note, Such yokemates as these, immortal mark, great captain, illustrious place. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxv, Rebecca..trying to soothe her angry yoke-mate. 1857Gladstone Glean. (1879) VI. 58 Inasmuch as St. Paul has declared that a Christian husband or wife married to an unbeliever is to suffer the unbelieving yoke⁓mate to depart. 1882G. M. Hopkins Let. 1 Jan. (1956) 162 One of our Fathers, who was..my yokemate on that laborious mission, died there yesterday night. 1911Fletcher & Kipling School Hist. England 223 The very marrow of Youth's dream, and still, Yoke-mate of wisest Age that worked her will! 1914Nineteenth Cent. July 111 In water, Oxygen is still further subjugated by its yoke-mate, Hydrogen. 1917Q. Rev. Apr. 276 The Austrians..to the disgust of their German allies, did nothing to endear themselves to their unequal yoke-mates, the Italians. 1929R. Bridges Test. Beauty iv. 145 Where lay the harness'd bones of the yoke-mated oxen. 1973L. Russell Colonial Canada iv. 46 If one ox of a pair were lost or killed, the other was usually unfit to work, because it would not function in unison with a new yoke-mate.
So ˈyoke-mating, marriage.
1891Meredith One of our Conq. xiv, On some future day of a perchance miserable yokemating. |