单词 | yokeless |
释义 | † yokelessn. Obsolete. A female yokel. ΘΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > rude or ignorant > woman yokeless1891 1891 F. Warden Those Westerton Girls! i. 5 There were a couple of score of yokels and yokelesses there doing nothing but fill up the platform. 1925 D. H. Lawrence Refl. Death Porcupine 182 As for the yokel, his little stream may have flowed out of commonplace little hills, and been ready to mingle with the streams of any easy, puddly little yokeless. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). yokelessadj. 1. Without a yoke around the neck; not fitted with, or restrained by, a yoke. Frequently figurative: not subject to restraint or control; unrestrained, undisciplined. ΘΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] freeeOE unneedc1175 easyc1200 untiedc1374 unhemmeda1400 largec1400 unrefraineda1500 rampanta1540 unmuzzleda1541 unyoked1573 yokeless1584 licensed1593 unbound1593 wild1599 broad1604 fetterless1604 unconfined1607 ungyved1607 ungaged?1617 unboundeda1625 unfettereda1631 vagabond1635 unmanacled1686 unrestricted1750 haggard-wild1786 unconstrained1796 unshackled1796 chainless1816 rioty1819 untethered1826 unwithholdena1834 bondless1845 fancy-loose1850 constraintless1865 unpressured1879 undammed1896 balls-to-the-wall1967 balls-out1968 1584 R. Cosin Answer to Two Fyrst & Principall Treat. i. xlv. 159 It behooueth all that be in authoritie, in manie respects to see hir Maiesties lawes strictlie executed against such yokelesse and fanaticall spirits as this. 1596 T. Lodge Diuel Coniured sig. Civ He is likewise called Sathan, because an aduersary:..and Belial, because yoakles. 1641 J. Trapp Theologia Theol. iv. 180 These Yokelesse Belialists snuffe at it as over-strict. 1663 J. C. V. O. Amsterdam 15 Vain man would be free and yokeless; neither would he have his heart subject to God, nor his actions to mans censure. 1675 T. Brooks Word in Season 15 in Paradice Opened Brainless fellows, light and empty, yoakless and masterless persons. 1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 104 Those men of Belial or, as the word signifies, yokeless ones. 1827 J. Mitford Sacred Specimens p. xxi Mountain-guarded Amalek Bowed to earth his yokeless neck. 1874 Armoury July 179 Lawless, yokeless, masterless man of sin. 1908 Relig. Telescope 1 Jan. 19/1 Without the yoke of Christ we are in worse plight than the yokeless oxen. 1986 College Eng. 48 574 I travelled around the country, observing the wooden-bladed plows drawn by yokeless oxen as they were a thousand years ago. 1999 M. J. Harris Slave of Christ v. 94 Since life cannot be ‘yokeless’, conversion must involve an alteration of sovereignty, an exchange of masters, the assumption of a new yoke. 2. Of a garment, or part of a garment: not featuring a yoke (yoke n. 6).In quot. 1904: (of a person) not dressed in a garment featuring a yoke. Π 1899 Standard 11 Mar. 3/1 There is now a return to the plain kind of yokeless shirt without seams in the back. 1904 Smart Set Oct. 33/1 Yokeless, Joan was sitting in the drawing-room that evening waiting for the guests when Lieutenant Trenly arrived. 1921 Boys' Outfitter Apr. 35 The novelty yokeless Norfolk jackets. 2005 Tel. Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) (Nexis) 12 June The Butt Lifters' ‘faux rigid core wash and yokeless back will lift your behind in just the right way’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1891adj.1584 |
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