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YOAK

Volume 20 · 48 words · 1810 Edition

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 plough in one day.