Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
yokefellow .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
yokefellow .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
companion .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Page 26 income than was good for him — seeing that the per diem then paid Congressmen was altogether insufficient — and during the earlier days of his sojourn in the national capital he cut a wide swath; his principal yokemate in the pleasures and dissipations of those times being Franklin Pierce, at first a representative and then a senator from New Hampshire.
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I noticed later that he always looked at people sidewise, as a work-horse does at its yokemate.
My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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Here our roads parting, I took leave of my beloved companion and true yokemate Samuel Eastburn, and reached home the 10th of eighth month, where I found my family well.
VII. 1760 1909
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Hardy were hurrying their horses through, when the youngest dog, nose to the ground and tugging his yokemate along, let go a cry of discovery and began to dig furiously under a bottom rail.
The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884
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My immediate yokemate on the States was John Savage, "Jack," as he was commonly called; a brilliant Irishman, who with Devin Reilley and John
Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880
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My immediate yokemate on the States was John Savage, "Jack," as he was commonly called; a brilliant Irishman, who with Devin Reilley and John
Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880
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Congressmen was altogethr insufficient -- and during the earlier days of his sojourn in the national capital he cut a wide swath; his principal yokemate in the pleasures and dissipations of those times being Franklin Pierce, at first a representative and then a senator from New Hampshire.
Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880
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Congressmen was altogethr insufficient -- and during the earlier days of his sojourn in the national capital he cut a wide swath; his principal yokemate in the pleasures and dissipations of those times being Franklin Pierce, at first a representative and then a senator from New Hampshire.
Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880
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Here our roads parting, I took leave of my beloved companion and true yokemate Samuel Eastburn, and reached home the 10th of eighth month, where I found my family well.
The Journal of John Woolman Woolman, John, 1720-1772 1871
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Ready for prompt action, he bent toward his yokemate, and whispered imperiously:
Joshua — Volume 5 Georg Ebers 1867
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