Yoker
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who yokes.
"His father Xanthippus (who on the shores of Ionia had obtained the first victory with Attic vessels of war) belonged to the clan of the Buzygæ (yokers of oxen), whose duty it was to watch over a sacred figure of Athene, the Palladium, and to perform primitive ceremonies relating to the introduction of agriculture."
- 1 A suburb in the City of Glasgow council area, Scotland, north of the Clyde (OS grid ref NS5169).
Example
More examples"His father Xanthippus (who on the shores of Ionia had obtained the first victory with Attic vessels of war) belonged to the clan of the Buzygæ (yokers of oxen), whose duty it was to watch over a sacred figure of Athene, the Palladium, and to perform primitive ceremonies relating to the introduction of agriculture."
Etymology
From yoke + -er.
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