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Meaning of yoker | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. One who yokes.
  2. A suburb in the City of Glasgow council area, Scotland, north of the Clyde (OS grid ref NS5169).

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.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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