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yokefellows

yokefellows is the plural of yokefellow.

Meaning of yokefellow

Noun

yokefellow (plural yokefellows)

  1. A companion; a fellow labourer, a person who works at the same task as another.
    • I’ll see their trial first. Bring in their evidence. / [To Edgar] Thou, robed man of justice, take thy place. / [To the Fool] And thou, his yokefellow of equity, / Bench by his side.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (archaic) Someone joined in marriage to another; a spouse.
    • [H]is industrious yoke-fellow executed every circumstance of the plan she had projected; so that, when he recovered his vision, he was an utter stranger in his own house.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

Questions about yokefellows

What is yokefellows the plural of?
Yokefellows is the plural of yokefellow.

Words near yokefellows in the dictionary

  1. yoke-toed
  2. yokeable
  3. yokeag
  4. yoked
  5. yokefellow
  6. yokefellows
  7. yokel
  8. yokeldom
  9. yokeless
  10. yokelessness
  11. yokelet

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