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English Dictionary: Yoking by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Yoke \Yoke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Yoked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Yoking}.]
      1. To put a yoke on; to join in or with a yoke; as, to yoke
            oxen, or pair of oxen.
  
      2. To couple; to join with another. [bd]Be ye not unequally
            yoked with unbelievers.[b8] --2 Cor. vi. 14.
  
                     Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb.   --Shak.
  
      3. To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to
            confine.
  
                     Then were they yoked with garrisons.   --Milton.
  
                     The words and promises that yoke The conqueror are
                     quickly broke.                                    --Hudibras.
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