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yoker

yoker noun: one who yokes.

Noun

yoker (plural yokers)

  1. One who yokes.
    • His father Xanthippus (who on the shores of Ionia had obtained the first victory with Attic vessels of war) belonged to the clan of the Buzygæ (yokers of oxen), whose duty it was to watch over a sacred figure of Athene, the Palladium, and to perform primitive ceremonies relating to the introduction...1871, Ernst Curtius, William Alfred Packard, The History of Greece, volume 2, page 481

Proper noun capitalized: Yoker

Yoker

  1. A suburb in the City of Glasgow council area, Scotland, north of the Clyde (OS grid ref NS5169).

Forms of yoker

pluralyokers

Origin of yoker

From yoke + -er.

Questions about yoker

What does yoker mean?
Yoker means one who yokes.
What part of speech is yoker?
Yoker can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of yoker?
The plural of yoker is yokers.

Words near yoker in the dictionary

  1. yokels
  2. yokemate
  3. yokemated
  4. yokemates
  5. yokemating
  6. yoker
  7. yokers
  8. yokes
  9. yokest
  10. yoketh
  11. yokewise

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