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yoke

/joʊk/ sustantivo C1

En español: yugo, ubio, toza, dentejón

  1. 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.; two draught animals connected by such a yoke; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.
  2. Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.
  3. A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole.
  4. Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.
  5. A similar device used as a game controller.
  6. well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.
  7. The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes.
  8. Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”).

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The storm still continuing, he was obliged to slaughter his yoke oxen for food.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 41 · B2

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