yoke
→
unit of area
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 4760 | plough, ard | → | unit of area | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | yoke | |
| meaning 1 | bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc. | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (chiefly Kent, archaic) An area of arable land, specifically one consisting of a quarter of a suling, or around 50–60 acres (20–24 hectares); hence, a small manor or piece of land | Of this ſuling Ralph de Curbeſpine holds one yoke and an half, which is and was worth ſeparately ten ſhillings. Adelold had half a ſuling and half a yoke, and in the time of K. Edward the Confeſſor it was worth 40 ſhillings, and afterwards 20 ſhillings, now 40 ſhillings. 1790, Edward Hasted, “The Hundred of Calehill”, in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. […], volume III, Canterbury, Kent: […] [F]or the author, by Simmons and Kirkby, page 207, column 2: https://books.google.com/books?id=MjVTNK5ObWoC&pg=PA207 |
| reference | OED English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | iugum | |
| meaning 1 | (literal) a yoke (for oxen or cattle) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | a juger of land, Roman unit of area, equivalent to 2 acti or 28,800 square feet (approximately ⅔ acre or ¼ hectare) | |
| reference | Lewis, Short | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme | jug | |
| meaning 1 | yoke | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | old unit of area (7,161 square meters) | |
| reference | DRRS: I, 1191 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme 1 | yugo | |
| lexeme 2 | yugada | |
| meaning 1 | yoke | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (historical) yugada, Spanish yoke (a traditional unit of area equivalent to about 32.2 ha) | |
| reference | DRAE | |
| comment | ||
unit of land area notionally equivalent to the area a team of yoked draft animals can work in a day