The piece that fastens an ox-yoke.
1857. It will help you to keep your axe sharp: you will not be so likely to get hurt yourself, or to lose your bowpins, chains, or axe.—F. D. Richards, Salt Lake City Tabernacle, March 22: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ v. 47.
1857. I tell you, as my soul lives, the bow-pin has dropped out of old Bright’s bow, and the bow has dropped out, and the yoke is now on old Buck-anan’s neck.—H. C. Kimball at the Bowery, Sept. 6: id., v. 217.
1857. You that have on such a yoke had better pull out the bow-keys, throw off the yoke, and then put one on that won’t chafe you.—John Young, the same, April 8: id., vi. 230.
