This month's term, "yoke," hearkens back to the crosspiece used to link working oxen, or the wooden beam worn over the shoulders by laborers.

The word “yoke,” as in neck yoke, is more commonly associated with oxen, where it refers both to the wooden neck piece that is the main element of their harnesses and to a pair of oxen hitched ...

Like a yoke of oxen, brain hemispheres are hitched side-by-side, meeting the world head-on. If we think logically, and analytically, the left hemisphere is the dominant, nigh ox. For the more ...

Later, Henry L. Meeks used six yoke of oxen to haul $25,000 worth of stock from Savannah – from “dry goods and fancy merchandise” to barrels of whiskey to be sold in quarts or larger ...

"Raising a yoke of oxen," said a Westchester County farmer the other day, "is a good deal like raising children. You can never tell how they are going to turn out till they get too big for you to ...