The four of them were bound together by a thick leather harness, and wooden yokes lay over their shoulders.
A fifth man had improvised a wooden yoke for his shoulders, to carry two balanced wineskins.
The construction is up, along with wooden yokes.
We saw a thief with his head locked in a wooden yoke.
Across his shoulders he still carried the wooden yoke which Sanders had fastened there.
"The ones who put their heads in wooden yokes at night, that's who the smart money's on."
A wooden yoke is put about the neck of each pair, so that the work is shared across their shoulders.
Often two pails would be carried on either end of a wooden yoke.
Young records that traditional wooden yokes were found by experiment to be superior to horse-style collars.
"Soon," she said firmly, as she climbed from the stream and took up the worn wooden yoke.