iugum
“iugum” is a Latin word. Its 12 meanings in English:
- a yoke (for oxen or cattle) or collar (for a horse)
- a yoke, pair, team of draft oxen; a pair of horses; a chariot
- a pair of anything
- a juger of land
- in Kent, a yoke of land, quarter sulung
- a horizontal beam or rail fastened perpendicular to a post or pole; a crossbeam, crossrail
- any of various types of horizontal structural member: the beam which united the upright posts of a loom, the crossbar of a lyre, the crossrail of a trellis, the thwart or cross-bench of a boat (the rower's bench)
- a symbolic yoke of subjugation: a low makeshift archway of three spears under which a vanquished enemy was made to bend in humiliation as they passed by
- a scalebeam; (metonymic) a pair of scales; (astronomy) the Libra
- the bond (of slavery, matrimony, etc.)
- accusative masculine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
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