yoke
Yoke stands for:
- a harness with which two oxen are harnessed to a wagon or plow, see harness (draft animal)
- a shoulder stretcher with which baskets or buckets are carried, the yoke
- an old square measure, see yoke (unit)
- a notch between two mountains in the mountains, see yoke (mountains)
- in architecture a spatial unit formed by four supports, see yoke (architecture)
- in technical construction the component between two bridge piers, see yoke (component)
- especially the number of pillars on a yoke bridge
- in archeology construction of megalithic systems yoke (archeology)
- in the classical period of Central America U-shaped stone for rituals, see yoke stone
- in the railway sector, the unit that is formed from two rails and the associated sleepers, see Gleisjoch
- a support in mining, see support yoke
- the rotatable beam for hanging a bell, the bell yoke
- in the electronic area the deflection unit from the picture tube, see deflection yoke
- the stacking yoke in warehouse technology
- in heraldry the coat of arms figure Armbrustjoch
- a device for shackling prisoners, see yoke (fetter)
- a trellis made of crossed spears, under which the vanquished had to pass, see Kaudinisches yoke
- a connecting part of the iron core in transformers, electric motors or relays , see three-phase alternating current transformer # structure
- part of the skull bone, the zygomatic bone
- a bony ridge of the skull, see zygomatic arch
- In a figurative sense, a foreign rule that is felt to be oppressive
The following geographical objects are called yoke :
- Joch (municipality of Windhaag) , district of Windhaag near Perg , Perg district, Upper Austria
- Yoke (Pyrénées-Orientales) , commune in the Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées region
Joch is the family name of the following people:
- Erich Joch (1913–2003), German athlete
- Johann Georg Joch (1676–1731), German Protestant theologian
- Lena Joch (* 1994), German skeleton athlete
- Peter Joch (* 1962), German art historian and curator
- Tobias Joch (* 1991), German actor and musical performer
- Winfried Joch (* 1935), German sports scientist
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Wiktionary: yoke - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations