单词 | yoking gear |
释义 | > as lemmasyoking gear General attributive (chiefly in sense 3), as yoking apparatus, yoking gear, yoking time, etc. Π 1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Hippolytus ii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 65 The saluage women feele the force of Venus yoaking band [L. iugum]. 1839 Prize-ess. & Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. Scotl. 12 267 In that system, the horses pulled also against each other; the draft-chains being passed over pulleys, to bring them to the yoking point. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1176 The yoking-geer of the shafts. 1869 J. W. Chisholm Rep. Land Revenue Settlement Belaspore District iv. 68 Running transversely to the yoking pole, is a thick circular beam about 4 feet long. 1885 G. A. Grierson Bihar Peas. Life 49 The yoking apparatus. 1912 J. Bryce Story of Ploughboy ii. 10 By this it was yoking-time. 1914 C. R. Kennedy Idol-breaker 12 Cartwheels and the yoking gear of cattle. 1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles xl. 325 This yoking method involved a problem of braking, for the traces would not keep a wagon from running into the team on downhill slopes. 1991 D. H. Owen in E. Miller Agrarian Hist. Eng. & Wales III. iii. 252 The ox-driver..was expected to provide the yoking equipment. < as lemmas |
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