Yokefellow

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A companion; a fellow labourer, a person who works at the same task as another.

    "I’ll see their trial first. Bring in their evidence. / [To Edgar] Thou, robed man of justice, take thy place. / [To the Fool] And thou, his yokefellow of equity, / Bench by his side."

  2. 2
    Someone joined in marriage to another; a spouse. archaic

    "[H]is industrious yoke-fellow executed every circumstance of the plan she had projected; so that, when he recovered his vision, he was an utter stranger in his own house."

Etymology

From yoke + fellow. Compare Ancient Greek σύζυγος.

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