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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Yoke \Yoke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Yoked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Yoking}.]
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     1. To put a yoke on; to join in or with a yoke; as, to yoke
        oxen, or pair of oxen.
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     2. To couple; to join with another. "Be ye not unequally
        yoked with unbelievers." --2 Cor. vi. 14.
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              Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb.   --Shak.
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     3. To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to
        confine.
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              Then were they yoked with garrisons.  --Milton.
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              The words and promises that yoke
              The conqueror are quickly broke.      --Hudibras.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "yoked":
     affiliate, affiliated, allied, assembled, associate, associated,
     banded together, biconjugate, bigeminate, bijugate, bound,
     bracketed, collateral, collected, conjoined, conjugate, conjugated,
     connected, copulate, correlated, coupled, gathered, hand-in-glove,
     hand-in-hand, implicated, incorporated, integrated, interlinked,
     interlocked, interrelated, intimate, involved, joined, knotted,
     leagued, linked, matched, mated, merged, of that ilk, of that kind,
     paired, parallel, related, spliced, tied, twinned, undivided,
     united, unseparated, wed, wedded
  
  

















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