yokerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

yoker (複数形 yokers)

1. One who yokes.
   • 1871, Ernst Curtius, ‎William Alfred Packard, The History of Greece (volume 2, page 481)

     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.