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YNCA

Volume 18 · 73 words · 1797 Edition

appellation anciently given to the kings of Peru, and the princes of their blood; the word literally signifying, lord, king, emperor, and royal blood.

Yoak, or Yoke, in agriculture, a frame of wood fitted over the necks of oxen, whereby they are coupled together, and harnessed to the plough.

Yoak of Land, in our ancient customs, was the space which a yoke of oxen, that is, two oxen, may plow in one day.