ȝok

• ȝoke, yok, ȝocke, yokke, ȝook, ȝoocke, jok, yoke, iuc, ȝeoce

From Old English ġeoc, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm. The forms with a long vowel are leveled from inflected forms, where open-syllable lengthening took place.

• IPA^(key): /jɔk/, /jɔːk/

ȝok (plural ȝokkes)

1. yoke (tool for attaching beasts of burden to a farm instrument).
2. A yoked group of beasts of burden.
3. The agreement and union of marriage.
4. Compliance; the imposition of constraints, especially willingly.
5. Cruelty or subjection to cruelty.
6. Something that looks like a yoke.
7. (rare) A challenge, burden or load.

• ȝoken

• English: yoke
• Scots: ȝok, ȝoke, ȝock, ȝocke, yok, yoke

• “yōke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-25.