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Yoke is mainly a noun and has a multitude of meanings. Some of them are:

a. A crossbar with two U-shaped pieces that encircle the necks of a pair of oxen or other draft animals working together.

b. pl. yoke or yokes A pair of draft animals, such as oxen, joined by a yoke.

c. A bar used with a double harness to connect the collar of each horse to the pole of a wagon or coach.

However, yoked is the past of the transitive verb "to yoke". There is also an intransitive verb which means "to become joined securely"

Examples of Yoked:

Yoke (verb)

v. yoked, yok·ing, yokes

v.tr.

1. To fit or join with a yoke.

2.

a. To harness a draft animal to.

b. To harness (a draft animal) to a vehicle or an implement.

3. To join securely as if with a yoke; bind: partners who were yoked together for life.

4. To force into heavy labor, bondage, or subjugation.

v.intr.

To become joined securely.

Other meanings :

yoke

noun

1 bond, chain, coupling, ligament, link, tie

2 bondage, burden, enslavement, helotry, oppression, serfdom, service, servility, servitude, slavery, thraldom, vassalage

verb

3 bracket, connect, couple, harness, hitch, join, link, tie, unite

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