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say it: yohk
yoke is a noun and verb meaning "fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment". It is pronounced /ˈjoʊk/ — yohk. It carries 10 recorded senses.
an oppressive power
“under the yoke of a tyrant”
“they threw off the yoke of domination”
support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end
a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for yoke come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.