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English
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Etymology
From yoke + fellow.
Noun
yokefellow (plural yokefellows)
- A companion; a fellow labourer, a person who works at the same task as another.
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I’ll see their trial first. Bring in their evidence. / [To Edgar] Thou, robed man of justice, take thy place. / [To the Fool] And thou, his yokefellow of equity, / Bench by his side.
1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter 7, in Shirley. A Tale. , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., , →OCLC:“ […] If two people like each other, why shouldn’t they consent to live together?” / “They tire of each other—they tire of each other in a month. A yokefellow is not a companion; he or she is a fellow-sufferer.”
1922, James Ezra Darby, Jesus, an economic mediator: God's remedy for industrial and international ills:Brain and hand, and means and muscle, are true yokefellows in modern industrialism. Without the inventor, there could be no machinery...
1999, David E Garland, Reading Matthew: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the First Gospel:Jesus treats his disciples as yokefellows rather than as camels and donkeys to be loaded down (23:4).
- (now rare, historical) Someone joined in marriage to another; a spouse.
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle , volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., , →OCLC:[H]is industrious yoke-fellow executed every circumstance of the plan she had projected; so that, when he recovered his vision, he was an utter stranger in his own house.
1882, Edward Augustus Freeman, The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First:...till new grounds of quarrel had arisen between the two unequal yokefellows who were at last fully coupled together.