a. rare. Also 7 -ie. [f. YOKE sb. + -Y1.] a. Having, or coupled by, a yoke; yoked. b. Consisting of or constituting a yoke.

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c. 1590.  Marlowe, Faustus, vi. Chorus. A chariot … Drawn by the strength of yoky dragons’ necks.

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c. 1611.  Chapman, Iliad, XVII. 382. Their manes … fell through the yokie sphere, Ruthfully rufl’d and defilde.

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a. 1660.  Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.), I. 61. Hoisinge theire thundringe instruments upon the unconstant wheeles of yokie beasts.

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