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| Norfolk jacket |
a loosely belted, single-breasted man's jacket with pockets on either side of the lower front and two box pleats in front and back from the yoke to the hem. |
| oxbow |
a wooden collar in the shape of a U that goes around the neck of an ox. It is fastened to a yoke. |
| unyoke |
to release or free from or as if from a yoke. [1/2 definitions] |
| yoke |
a device used to join together a pair of work animals. A yoke is made up of a wooden bar with two U-shaped ends that fit around the animals' heads. [1/3 definitions] |
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