[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That yokes, in various senses: see the verb.
1592. Shaks., Ven. & Ad., 592. And on his neck her yoaking armes she throwes.
1643. Milton, Divorce, I. xiii. 21. An improper and ill-yoking couple. Ibid. (1645), Tetrach., Matt. v. 31. What can be more … disparaging to the cov’nant of love … then to bee made the yoaking pedagogue of new severities?
