Showing posts with label yolk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yolk. Show all posts

Thursday, January 12, 2012

yolk, yoke

Yolk or yolk means the yellow part of an egg--
Try not to break the yolk when you crack the egg.
The recipe calls for the yolk of an egg.

Yoke or yoke ( rhymes with yolk ) means a part of a harness that goes around a horse or draft animal, meaning an animal that pulls a cart, wagon, or plow--
Pa is out back fixing the yoke for the oxen.
"...with two yoke of oxen and a fine spotted hog..."
Yoke may be used to mean a burden for a person--
"...for my yoke is easy, and my burden light..."

Now that you know that, you can say--
"He made a new yoke for the plow horse and painted it the color of the yolk of an egg."

Note--a "yokel" is a rural person or country bumpkin--
The salesman was sure that the yokel would never discover his deceit.