单词 | yoked |
释义 | yokedadj. 1. a. Of a plough, cart, etc.: fitted with a yoke; having a draught animal or animals attached by means of a yoke. Of a draught animal or animals: harnessed to a plough, cart, etc., by means of a yoke; joined together by a yoke.In earliest use with modifying adverb. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [adjective] > yoked yokeda1382 harnessed1483 yokya1593 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [adjective] wedded?a800 spousedc1300 weda1400 marriedc1400 boundenc1426 conjugate1471 nuptial?1585 yoked1607 continuous1642 wedlock-bound1667 coupled1672 conjugated1690 partnered1775 mated1821 attached1898 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Psalms Prol. l. 93 Þe arke..he putte on in a newe ȝokid carte & broȝte in to ierusalem. a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 209 in Poems (1981) 117 This goldin cart..Four ȝokkit steidis..throw the spheiris drew. a1557 J. Cheke tr. Gospel St. Matthew (1843) xxi. 5 A foole of an iooked as. 1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 24 The yoked Oxe doth smell his strawie stall. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 42 The Septentrions call them Triones, that is yoked Oxen. 1648 E. Sherburne in tr. Seneca Medea 77 He seemes with goad t'incite his yoaked Steeres. a1693 M. Bruce Good News in Evil Times (1707) 36 They dow not venture their yoked Plough. 1711 Atlas Geographus I. 178/2 Two yoked Dogs draw one [sled]. 1716 in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1893) II. 86 John Gregor cited for going with his yoked horse through the country on the Sabbath day. 1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor xiii. 42 Each [carriage] was..drawn through the dusty plain by yoked oxen or buffaloes, with a slow and solemn pace. 1844 R. M. Daniel Grave Digger II. xi. 171 The yoked harrows were seen here and there. 1888 Bye-gones 12 Sept. 186/1 In driving yoked cattle and harnessed horses teamsters cry ‘get up’, ‘click, click’.., etc., in English-speaking countries. 1902 A. M. Fairbairn Philos. Christian Relig. ii. iv. 384 The yoked oxen plough the fields. 1984 Y. Mathpal Prehistoric Rock Paintings Bhimbetka 19 There are four shelters with painting showing..yoked carts and peacocks on trees. 2006 CIO 15 July 6/1 A coordinated set of computational engines, like a yoked team of horses. b. Of a pig or other animal: having a wooden collar or frame fitted around the neck to prevent it from breaking through or leaping over a hedge, fence, etc. Cf. yoke n. 4, yoke v.1 2. Π ?c1500 Conversion of St. Paul (Digby) l. 119 He was nother horse ne nare [read mare], nor yet yokyd sow. 1593 ‘P. Foulface’ Bacchus Bountie sig. B4 His leggs they were so crooked seene A yoked hog might run betweene. 1646 in M. A. Green Springfield (Mass.) , 1636–1886 (1888) vi. 99 Corne ground or meddowe yt is sufficiently fenced against yoked hoggs. 1716 R. Neve Merry Compan. i. 3 I would cut a Hole big enough for a Yoked Hog to creep through. 1841 E. G. Paige Short Patent Serm. i. 3 You would feel as miserable as a yoked pig dying with the scurvy. 1869 North Western Farmer Oct. 230/3 Perhaps you would prefer some great clumsy farmer, who would appear about as graceful in a drawing room as a yoked pig. 1915 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 17 Aug. 5/2 She can jump so well that the owner has put a yoke on her—the only yoked hog that ever was seen by the congressman. 2007 G. L. Saunders Free Wind Home 112 A yoked hen could neither squeeze through the palings nor fly over them. c. Of a person: held fast in a yoke or other means of restraint. Cf. yoke v.1 3, yoke n. 2a. Π 1749 C. Lucas 16th Addr. to Free Citizens Dublin 27 That Galls this yoked Slave. 1819 T. Chalmers Serm. Tron Church iv. 124 The yoked and the tortured negro is compelled to yield to the whip of the overseer. 1841 A. E. Bray Mountains & Lakes of Switzerland III. xxxviii. 248 I observed in the group a woman with two children in her arms, at the end of the procession of the yoked captives. 1894 Irish Monthly Feb. 88 He looked curiously and almost, one would say, with regret at the yoked prisoners. 1919 T. Mundy Ivory Trail xviii. 409 Some of the ivory..was splintered by the fall when yoked slaves tossed it in. 2007 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 7 Oct. (Travel section) 20 It doesn't take a lot of imagination..to visualise dhows running the abolition gauntlet, dropping and securing chained and yoked slaves within minutes. 2. Of a person: united with another person in marriage; (of a couple) married. Cf. yoke n. 12, yoke v.1 7. Now somewhat dated.Often with modifying adverb, as suitably, unhappily, etc. See also ill-yoked adj. at ill- comb. form 1c(d)(iii).The Biblical phrase unequally yoked (Corinthians 6:14: ‘Be ye not vnequally yoked together with vnbeleeuers?’ (King James Bible)) is sometimes interpreted in this sense. ΘΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [adjective] matrimonial1449 yoked1531 conjugal1545 geniala1547 marriageable1597 married1598 hymeneal1602 marital1603 hymenean1606 weddeda1616 matrimonious1645 connubial1656 gamical1660 hymenial1710 1531 tr. E. Fox et al. Determinations Moste Famous Vniuersities iv. f. 68v She that is despoused..hath taken the name of a yoked or maryed woman. 1541 M. Coverdale tr. H. Bullinger Christen State Matrimonye f. vi Whyle such yoked folkes also are alyue, there is no tranquilite: & finally the beleuer must be in continuall discorde with the vnbeleuer. 1685 tr. Ovid Amores in N. Tate Poems by Several Hands 165 I see you [sc. Love]..in Triumph ride, With dextrous art the yoaked couple guide. 1762 Life, Trav., & Adventures Christopher Wagstaff I. xviii. 88 There is not a more unequally and diametrically-oppositely yoked couple in the parish of St. James. 1878 D. M. Mulock Legacy II. 86 The yoked man, unhappy though his coupling may be, is always contrasted favourably with the bachelor. 1884 Christian Messenger Feb. 52 A more suitably yoked couple I have seldom met with than James and Rachel. 1922 Anaconda (Montana) Standard 20 May 7/3 Domestic bickerings at home, with rolling pins,..and then the hypocritical sweetness of the ‘yoked pair’ out in society. 1996 L. Parrott & L. Parrott Questions Couples Ask 160 One of the most difficult situations a Christian ever faces is being married to a person who is not a believer... However, there are some principles an ‘unequally yoked’ spouse can learn. 2002 S. H. Biggers Brit. Author House Museums ix. 247/1 Two sons and a daughter had already been born to this unhappily yoked couple before David Herbert's birth. 3. figurative. Connected or linked; coupled together. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [adjective] > coupled or yoked together coupledc1440 conjugate1471 yokedc1540 fellow-yoked1620 jugated1727 c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xvi. xv. f. 240/1 For yocht realmes & nationis contend amang yame self for conques of glore & landis. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Kv Yoked wordes whiche beyng deriued of one, are chaunged in the speakyng. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. ii. 186/2 But now all their dangers yoked alike in a common perill, they laid aside priuate grudges. 1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Of Urines in Five Treat. iv. 10 The yellow Bile is necessarily begot from the yoked heat and motion of the blood. 1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways I. i. 11 Here we see England and Ireland changing their parts, until later..the Englishman and Irishwoman resumed a certain resemblance to the yoked islands. 1915 Western Druggist 37 122/2 There are an innumerable number of conjugate movements, produced by yoked actions of the four recti and the two oblique muscles of each eye. 1973 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 273 476 Volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Waterberg system were deposited on an uneven floor of crystalline rocks in fault-bounded yoked basins. 2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 Dec. (Front section) 38/1 Businesses have gone about the yoked work of advancing their interests while igniting charitable impulses. 4. Botany. Of a leaf or leaves: consisting of one or more pairs of opposite leaflets; also (with distinguishing word or number) having a specified number of pairs of leaflets; now rare. Cf. conjugate adj. 4a, jugate adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] > compound or lobed cut1565 winged1668 pinnate1687 conjugated1690 trifoliated1698 auriculated1712 auriculate1714 pennate1723 pinnated1725 pennated1727 bigeminate1753 lyrated1753 pedated1753 pinnatifid1753 supradecomposite1753 supradecompound1753 ternated1753 trifoliate1753 lyrate1760 pedate1760 quinate1760 ternate1760 tripinnate1760 palmed1767 bilobated1770 lyre-shaped1778 pennatifid1778 finger-parted1783 superdecompound1783 bipinnate1785 biternate1785 conjugate1785 lobed1787 tergeminate1793 wing-cleft1796 yoked?1803 binate1807 septenate1807 trijugous1813 auricled1821 pinniform1821 multijugous1828 pinnulate1828 trifoliolate1828 bipinnatifid1830 multifoliolate1831 multijugate1831 quinquefoliolate1832 bifoliolate1835 pinnatisected1837 palmatifid1839 tripinnatifid1839 foliate1840 palmatipartite1840 pinnatilobate1840 pinnatipartite1840 pinnatisect1840 bipinnated1842 biconjugate1847 imparipinnate1847 paripinnate1851 pinnatulate1855 polytomous1856 multifoliate1857 pennati-partite1857 pennati-sected1857 ternato-pinnate1857 tripinnatisect1857 patentoternate1859 septemfoliate1859 bipinnatipartite1861 bipinnatisected1861 bipalmate1864 pinnatilobed1866 septenous1866 cut-leaved1870 lobing1870 ternatisect1870 tripinnated1876 trijugate1880 jugate1887 pinnulated1890 trisect1899 tridigitate1900 trigeminous1900 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Bijugous, having two leaves from the same stalk directly opposite to each other, yoked together.] ?1803–4 H. C. Andrews Botanist's Repository V. Pl. CCCV Geranium with leaves that are winged, with odd one and two yoked; leaflets inversely egg-shaped, and smooth. 1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. 70 It is said to be simply yoked, when one pair only of opposite leaflets, is supported on the common foot-stalk... Double-yoked—when there are two pairs, and so on. 1889 Cent. Dict. Trijugous, triple-yoked, threefold. In bot., same as trijugate. 1914 L. H. Bailey Standard Cycl. Hort. II. 628/1 [Calliandra] portoricensis,..unarmed shrub or small tree: pinnæ 2–4-yoked. 2001 Econ. Bot. 55 573/1 Mutations to decussate expression in yoked leaves in modern maize have been reported several times. 5. Of a garment or part of a garment: having a yoke (yoke n. 6). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > other capedc1550 footeda1652 untuckered1713 yoked1852 flapped1860 long-trousered1866 panty leg1908 backless1926 shoulderless1928 wrap-over1960 1852 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 20 Jan. Fine French yoked Shirts, corded and plain. 1891 Fur Trade Rev. 1 Nov. 480/2 A small shoulder cape, consisting of a frill of black velvet and a yoked collar of rose velvet. 1913 Play Pictorial No. 133. 78/3 With an original trimming of diamanté on the yoked back and down the fronts. 1946 Times 8 Apr. 3/1 (advt.) Yoked shoulders dramatise the simple bodice. 2007 Islands Apr. 34/2 I met up with the unlikely bureaucrat—who was wearing cowboy boots, a yoked shirt and a ‘Silver Coyote Saddlery’ baseball cap. 6. Of a pail, basket, etc.: carried on a yoke (yoke n. 5). ΘΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [adjective] > carried on a yoke yoked1866 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. Introd. 6 At the well, clean and comely women carrying yoked buckets. 1895 C. A. Sumner Notes of Trav. in Sweden (ed. 2) viii. 92 ‘These women with yoked pails are going to milk?’ we say. 1910 S. H. Hamer Dolomites iii. 38 Girls coming to the well with queer yoked pails on their shoulders. 1944 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 16 Oct. 3/5 (caption) This charming little Chinese girl carries her family's few belongings in yoked baskets. 2012 T. Kearey Glance in Mirror ii. 15 The baker delivered his pies, buns and bread daily and the milkman conveyed his milk by yoked pail. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1382 |
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