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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Yoke \Yoke\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Yoked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Yoking}.]
1. To put a yoke on; to join in or with a yoke; as, to yoke oxen, or pair of oxen.
2. To couple; to join with another. ''Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers.'' --2 Cor. vi. 14.
Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb. --Shak.
3. To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine.
Then were they yoked with garrisons. --Milton.
The words and promises that yoke The conqueror are quickly broke. --Hudibras.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "yoked": affiliate, affiliated, allied, assembled, associate, associated, banded together, biconjugate, bigeminate, bijugate, bound, bracketed, collateral, collected, conjoined, conjugate, conjugated, connected, copulate, correlated, coupled, gathered, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, implicated, incorporated, integrated, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimate, involved, joined, knotted, leagued, linked, matched, mated, merged, of that ilk, of that kind, paired, parallel, related, spliced, tied, twinned, undivided, united, unseparated, wed, wedded
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