Yolked vs. Yoked — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Yolked and Yoked
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Definitions
Yolked
Having a specified type of yolk.
Although it is rare, you may occasionally find a double-yolked egg.
Yoked
A contoured crossbar having two U-shaped attachments that fit around the necks of a team of oxen or other draft animals, with a central ring for hitching the team to a cart, plow, or other load.
Yoked
Pl. yoke or yokes A pair of draft animals, such as oxen, joined by a yoke.
Yoked
A bar used with a double harness to connect the collar of each horse to the pole of a wagon or coach.
Yoked
A frame designed to be carried across a person's shoulders with equal loads suspended from each end.
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Yoked
(Nautical) A crossbar on a ship's rudder to which the steering cables are connected.
Yoked
A clamp or vise that holds a machine part in place or controls its movement or that holds two such parts together.
Yoked
A piece of a garment that is closely fitted, either around the neck and shoulders or at the hips, and from which an unfitted or gathered part of the garment is hung.
Yoked
Something that connects or joins together; a bond or tie.
Yoked
(Electronics) A series of two or more magnetic recording heads fastened securely together for playing or recording on more than one track simultaneously.
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Yoked
Any of various emblems of subjugation, such as a structure made of two upright spears with a third laid across them, under which conquered enemies of ancient Rome were forced to march in subjection.
Yoked
The condition of being subjugated by or as if by a conqueror; subjugation or bondage
14th-century Russia under the Tatar yoke.
The yoke of drug addiction.
Yoked
To fit or join with a yoke.
Yoked
To harness a draft animal to.
Yoked
To harness (a draft animal) to a vehicle or an implement.
Yoked
To join together; bind
Partners who were yoked together for life.
Yoked
To force into heavy labor, bondage, or subjugation.
Yoked
To become joined.
Yoked
Wearing a yoke.
The yoked oxen stood ready.
Yoked
(bodybuilding) Having large and well-defined muscles particularly at the neck and the trapezii (forming thus the “yoke“).
By the end of his fourth year of weight-lifting, Lee was yoked.
Yoked
(slang) Married.
They got yoked four years ago.
Yoked
Simple past tense and past participle of yoke