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ox yoke
[ox 5.]
A yoke used for draught oxen. Also transf.
1573[see ox-bow 1]. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 244/1 In the Cart-House..Oxeyokes, Horse Collars. 1785G. Washington Diary 16 Nov. (1925) II. 441 A good Oxe Cart—2 Oxe yokes. 1809Austin Papers (1924) I. 164 One Plough, one Harrow..and two Ox yokes. 1847in H. Howe Hist. Coll. Ohio 188 Journeys..of 20 or 50 miles, for the sole purpose of having the staple of an ox-yoke mended. 1879B. F. Taylor Summer-Savory xvii. 138 Awkward H's like a pair of leaning bar-posts with one bar, and B's like ox⁓yokes. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling iv. 41 Penny..went to the sink-hole with a wooden ox-yoke supporting two wooden buckets over his thin shoulders. |