Yoke vs Yowe - What's the difference?
yoke | yowe |
A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together.
* Alexander Pope
A pair (of animals, especially oxen).
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XIV:
A frame made to fit the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the frame.
A frame worn on the neck of an animal, such as a cow, pig, or goose, to prevent passage through a fence.
(figuratively) A burden; something which represses or restrains a person.
A frame or convex piece by which a bell is hung for ringing it.
The part of a shirt that stretches over the shoulders, usually made out of a doubled piece of fabric. Or, a pair of fabric panels on trousers (especially jeans) or a skirt, across the back of the garment below the waistband.
* 1913 ,
(bodybuilding) Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.
* 2010 , Jim Wendler, "Build an NFL Neck", Men's Fitness (April), page 73.
(aviation) The column-mounted of an aircraft.
(electronics) The electro-magnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube).
(nautical) A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered. In modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.
(agriculture, dated, uncommon) An alternative name for a cowpoke.
(glassblowing) A Y-shaped stand used to support a blowpipe or punty while reheating in the glory hole.
(engineering) A bent crosspiece connecting two other parts.
A tie securing two timbers together, not used for part of a regular truss, but serving a temporary purpose, as to provide against unusual strain.
(dressmaking) A band shaped to fit the shoulders or the hips, and joined to the upper full edge of the waist or the skirt.
The amount of land ploughed in a day by a pair of oxen.
A portion of the working day.
(informal, Ireland) A miscellaneous object; a gadget.
To link or to join.
*
To unite, to connect.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians vi. 14
To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine.
* Milton
* Hudibras
(archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland) A ewe; a female sheep.
* 1902 , James Thomson, Recollections of a Speyside parish
(archaic)
* 1440', Letter, '''1841 , Joseph Stevenson (editor), ''The Correspondence, Inventories, Account Rolls, and Law Proceedings of the Priory of Coldingham ,
As nouns the difference between yoke and yowe
is that yoke is a bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together while yowe is (archaic|dialect|uk|scotland) a ewe; a female sheep.As a verb yoke
is to link or to join.As a pronoun yowe is
(archaic).yoke
English
Noun
(en noun)- A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke, / Untamed, unconscious of the galling yoke .
- And another sayd: I have bought fyve yooke of oxen, and I must goo to prove them, I praye the have me excused.
- [...] this city child was dressed in what was then called the "Kate Greenaway" manner, and her red cashmere frock, gathered full from the yoke , came almost to the floor.
- Nothing says you're a dedicated lifter and true athlete more than a massive yoke —that is, the muscles of the neck, traps, and rear delts.
- (Gardner)
- to work two yokes , i.e. to work both morning and afternoon
- (Halliwell)
Synonyms
* (aviation) control wheelDerived terms
* pass under the yoke * under the yokeVerb
(yok)- Muriel and Benjamin yoked themselves into an old governess-cart and did their share.
- Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers.
- Then were they yoked with garrisons.
- The words and promises that yoke / The conqueror are quickly broke.
Derived terms
* yoke togetheryowe
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- The ram was marked wi' keel at the reet o' the tail an' the yowes upon their hips.
Etymology 2
Pronoun
(English Pronouns)page 116,
- Wirshipfull sir, I commend me to yowe'; thankyng '''yowe''' of all tendirnesse and labour of lang time shewid to my brether and our cell of Coldyngham, prayand ' yowe of yowr goode continuance.