ppl. a. [f. YOKE v. or sb. + -ED.]
1. Coupled by a yoke, as a pair of draught-animals; also, attached to a vehicle or plow, as a draught-animal.
c. 1480. Henryson, Test. Cress., 209. This goldin Cart … Four ȝokkit steidis … throw the Spheiris drew.
c. 1485. Digby Myst., II. 119. He was nother horse ne mare, nor yet yokyd sow.
c. 1550. Cheke, Matt. xxi. 5. A foole of an iooked as.
1568. T. Howell, Arb. Amitie, 24. The yoked Oxe doth smell his strawie stall.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 42. The Septentrions call them Triones, that is yoked Oxen.
1716. in Cramond, Ann. Banff (1893), II. 86. John Gregor cited for going with his yoked horse through the country on the Sabbath day.
1819. Chalmers, Serm., Job ix. 30–33, 124. The yoked and the tortured negro is compelled to yield to the whip of the overseer.
1902. Fairbairn, Philos. Chr. Relig., II. iv. 384. The yoked oxen plough the fields.
2. Connected, coupled, linked; in Bot. said of a leaf consisting of one or more pairs of opposite leaflets; now called CONJUGATE (a. 4 a), JUGATE (a. 1).
1551. T. Wilson, Logic, Kv. Yoked wordes whiche beyng deriued of one, are chaunged in the speakyng.
1807. J. E. Smith, Phys. Bot. (1814), 137. Conjugatum, conjugate, or yoked [leaf], consists of only a pair of pinnæ or leaflets, and is much the same as binatum.
1829. T. Castle, Introd. 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.
3. Carried on a yoke, as a pail; furnished with a yoke, as a garment: see YOKE sb. 3, 3 b.
1866. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, Introd. 6. At the well, clean and comely women carrying yoked buckets.
1913. Play Pictorial, No. 133. 78/3. With an original trimming of diamante on the yoked back and down the fronts.
