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Yoke meaning
Senses relating to a frame around the neck. | A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose. | Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
Example sentences (20)
Scotch yoke A Scotch yoke mechanism can be used to convert between rotational motion and linear reciprocating motion.
This yoke has similar, if not identical inductances, unlike a TV deflection yoke.
In terms of why Torah is called a yoke, while learning Torah and living a life following Torah and is often experienced as pleasurable, there is also an element of challenge and difficulty.
Probable double trouble of a heavy yoke that can break the back of any beast of burden, politically.
The deeper the Christians penetrated into subject Ottoman territory, the larger their army became, as overjoyed Christian subjects, casting off the yoke of their Muslim masters, rushed to join and augment the ranks of their saviors.
The entire free world should unite against the Iranian regime, so that Azerbaijan, Israel, Iran, the nations under Iranian influence in the Middle East, and the entire free world can be liberated from the yoke of Tehran’s tyranny.
The only yoke that exists in Colombia is the one that totalitarians like Petro have imposed on their people,“ Abascal wrote on Twitter.
The verse continues, “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
And he delivered with this prayer to the Lord Almighty to be delivered from the curse of the pick six, for its burden is heavy and its yoke is not light.
However, the world’s population that is suffering under the yoke of militarism cannot afford to wait for NATO to give up and go away of its own accord.
Is our best hope of escaping the yoke of higher taxes the return of Ms Forbes to government, this time as First Minister?
Nations that have suffered decades, even centuries, under the Russian yoke asked to join in collective security to maintain their freedom.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
The generation leaving Egypt had learned from childhood to endure the Egyptian yoke and they possessed a low soul.
There’s excitement about change, the potential for the return of internally displaced people to their homes, the release of political prisoners from jail – a future not under the punishing yoke of an autocratic regime.
Ukraine's membership bid enjoys wide backing from Baltic and Eastern European nations still haunted by decades under the Soviet yoke and fearful of the prospect of more Russian aggression on their borders.
As a video of the farmer’s daughters ploughing the field by working like bulls with yoke on their shoulders went viral over social media, Sonu Sood promised Sunday morning that the family will get a tractor by evening.
But I sensed what a yoke of responsibility this marriage must have laid on her proud, willful shoulders.
His yoke will be taken from my people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.
It was the first sub-Saharan country to shed the yoke of colonialism.