English-Czech translations for yoke

• chomout
• jařmo
• jho
  Arabské revoluce sotva setřásly jho svých vlastních despotů a již jim zahraniční tyrani posílají své pozdravy. The Arab revolutions have barely shaken off the yoke of their own despots and now foreign tyrants are sending them their regards.
  Za této situace byla Braniborská brána v listopadu roku 1989 svědkem toho, jak lidé setřásli a zničili jho útlaku. In this situation, the Brandenburg Gate in November 1989 bore witness to the fact that people were shaking off and destroying the yoke of oppression.
  Musí zesílit svůj boj proti plánům všech imperialistů, aby setřásly jho okupace v Afghánistánu a v oblasti jako celku. They must step up their fight against the plans of all the imperialists, in order to shake off the yoke of occupation in Afghanistan and the area as a whole.

Definition of yoke

• Frame around the neck, and related senses
• Pair of harnessed draught animals, and related senses
• Extended uses and quantities
• To link or to join
• To unite, to connect
• To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine

Examples

• to work two yokes, i.e. to work both morning and afternoon

Related words

• yokel
• yoked
• unyoke
• unyoked
• Holyoke
• yoke up
• control yoke
• pass under the yoke
• milkmaid’s yoke