yokefellow
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "“[…] 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.”"
- "Brain and hand, and means and muscle, are true yokefellows in modern industrialism. Without the inventor, there could be no machinery..."
- "Jesus treats his disciples as yokefellows rather than as camels and donkeys to be loaded down (23:4)."
- "[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."
- "...till new grounds of quarrel had arisen between the two unequal yokefellows who were at last fully coupled together."