A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke,
Untamed, unconscious of the galling yoke. Pope.

* The modern yoke for oxen is usually a piece of timber hollowed, or made curving, near each end, and laid on the necks of the oxen, being secured in place by two bows, one inclosing each neck, and fastened through the timber. In some countries the yoke consists of a flat piece of wood fastened to the foreheads of the oxen by thongs about the horns.

Boweth your neck under that blissful yoke . . .
Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock. Chaucer.

This yoke of marriage from us both remove. Dryden.

Our country sinks beneath the yoke. Shak.

My yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matt. xi. 30.

I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them. Luke xiv. 19.

Neck yoke, Pig yoke. See under Neck, and Pig. -- Yoke elm (Bot.), the European hornbeam (Carpinus Betulus), a small tree with tough white wood, often used for making yokes for cattle.

Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb. Shak.

Then were they yoked with garrisons. Milton.

The words and promises that yoke
The conqueror are quickly broke. Hudibras.

We 'll yoke together, like a double shadow. Shak.