agriculturalyoke, collar attached to animals, by means of which they pull a cart or plough:
(
s.xii2;
MS: s.xii3/3
)
vaches dous ki [...] ju n’aient espermenté
Liv Reis1 13.7
(
s.xivin;
MS: 1382
)
Jugo et arsoun
(M.E. ȝoke and oxebowe)
Nominale 859
♦
fig.yoke, burden, oppressive load:
(
s.xii1;
MS: c.1145
)
Derumpums les lur liens, e degetums de nus le juh de els
Oxf Ps ANTS 43.2.3
(
s.xiiex;
MS: c.1300
)
Vus ki savez sun treget, Ne metez pur poi de pru Vostre col desuz le ju
(var. (C: c.1330) jeu)
Rom Phil 248
(
s.xiii1;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
Kant delivre estoit del servage K’ele out del jou mariage [...]
S Audree1 370
♦
fig.bond, commitment:
(
c.1136-65;
MS: c.1200
)
Kar li jous Deu est mesurable, Legers, soués e deportable
Salemon 6513
(
s.xiii1;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
Sexborc […] Coveita la subjection Et le jou de religion
S Audree1 1840
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xivin
)
par ceo
(=the stole ) [il] bien les
(=deacons) garnist K'il ount pris le seuf jug Crist
Corset ANTS 1214