Yug

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

  Yug \Yug\, Yuga \Yu"ga\, n. [Skr. yuga an age, a yoke. See
     {Yoke}.] (Hindoo Cosmog.)
     Any one of the four ages, Krita, or Satya, Treta, Dwapara,
     and Kali, into which the Hindoos divide the duration or
     existence of the world.
     [1913 Webster]