Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A yoke for oxen. See yoke.

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Examples

  • On the opposite side of the hearth, Zenas was crouched upon the floor, laboriously shaping an ox-yoke with a spoke-shave.

    Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

  • As the statement about the slung-shot blow was made by a man who disputed the ox-yoke accident, and that the fatal hurts were received in the free fight at the camp-meeting, it was necessary that he should be explicit.

    The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

  • The feeling ran so high that at one time the end of a wagon-tongue was propped up with an ox-yoke by some of the emigrants with the intention of hanging Reed thereon, but calmer counsel prevailed.

    History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra

  • Thar in that poked up mess o 'dirt, you see yon weeny chip of ox-yoke?

    The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920

  • As the statement about the slung-shot blow was made by a man who disputed the ox-yoke accident, and that the fatal hurts were received in the free fight at the camp-meeting, it was necessary that he should be explicit.

    The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907

  • Also the pole was propped up with an ox-yoke so as to make the vehicle level to lie in.

    Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Tyler Sudley's face turned gray, despite his belligerent efficiencies, when his wife, hearing the clank of the ox-yoke as it was flung down in the shed outside, divined the home-coming of the ploughman and his team, and slipped out to the barn with her news.

    The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • She winced to tell him what had happened, but she it was who, bracing her nerves, made the disclosure, for Sudley remained silent, the end of the ox-yoke in his trembling hands, his head bare to the moon and the dew, his face grown lined and old.

    The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • The two negroes at the end of the vista beyond the shed-room, with the ox-yoke and plough-gear which they were mending between them, opened wide mouths and became immovable save for the whites of astonished rolling eyes.

    The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • Saddles and spinning-wheels, an ox-yoke and trace-chains, reels and wash-tubs, were incongruously pushed together in the corners.

    His "Day In Court" 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

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