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Webster 1913 Edition
Yokefellow
Yoke′felˊlow
,Noun.
[
Yoke
+ fellow
.] An associate or companion in, or as in; a mate; a fellow; especially, a partner in marriage.
Phil. iv. 3.
The two languages [English and French] became
yokefellows
in a still more intimate manner. Earle.
Those who have most distinguished themselves by railing at the sex, very often choose one of the most worthless for a companion and
yokefellow
. Addison.
Definition 2024
yokefellow
yokefellow
English
Noun
yokefellow (plural yokefellows)
- (archaic) A companion.
- 1882, Edward Augustus Freeman, The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First
- ...till new grounds of quarrel had arisen between the two unequal yokefellows who were at last fully coupled together.
- 1922, James Ezra Darby, Jesus, an economic mediator: God's remedy for industrial and international ills
- Brain and hand, and means and muscle, are true yokefellows in modern industrialism. Without the inventor, there could be no machinery...
- 1999, David E Garland, Reading Matthew: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the First Gospel
- Jesus treats his disciples as yokefellows rather than as camels and donkeys to be loaded down (23:4).
- 1882, Edward Augustus Freeman, The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First