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- noun Plural form of
yokemate .
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Examples
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Along the west side of the meadow ran a brown streak of sod, and down one side of this a man guided the handles of a plow drawn by the strangest yokemates Hazel's eyes had seen for many a day.
North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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March owned that the notion of their being yokemates was shocking; but he urged that it was a stage of evolution, and a distinct advance upon the time when women dragged the carts without the help of the dogs; and that the time might not be far distant when the dogs would drag the carts without the help of the women.
Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878
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March owned that the notion of their being yokemates was shocking; but he urged that it was a stage of evolution, and a distinct advance upon the time when women dragged the carts without the help of the dogs; and that the time might not be far distant when the dogs would drag the carts without the help of the women.
Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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March owned that the notion of their being yokemates was shocking; but he urged that it was a stage of evolution, and a distinct advance upon the time when women dragged the carts without the help of the dogs; and that the time might not be far distant when the dogs would drag the carts without the help of the women.
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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Mr Blobby and Beethoven are yokemates of broadcasting destiny.
Boris Johnson 2008
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Mr Blobby and Beethoven are yokemates of broadcasting destiny.
Boris Johnson 2008
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Mr Blobby and Beethoven are yokemates of broadcasting destiny.
Boris Johnson 2008
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Mr Blobby and Beethoven are yokemates of broadcasting destiny.
Boris Johnson 2008
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Mr Blobby and Beethoven are yokemates of broadcasting destiny.
Boris Johnson 2008
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Mr Blobby and Beethoven are yokemates of broadcasting destiny.
Boris Johnson 2008
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