Yoke

yoke
The top horizontal board of a window frame.
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Yoke - Top of a double-hung window
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Zoophorous - Frieze decorated with animal or human figures ...

oxbow - a wooden framework bent in the shape of a U; its upper ends are attached to the horizontal yoke and the loop goes around the neck of an ox
picture frame - a framework in which a picture is mounted
rack - framework for holding objects ...

Novgorod and Pskov however managed to escape the Mongol yoke, and evolved into successful commercial republics. Many dozens of medieval churches, from the twelfth century on, have been preserved in these towns.

Did this art come into being as a prophetic manifestation of the great national awakening that was to produce Jeanne d'Arc and shake off the English yoke?

It has pleased us also to insert in this document that, from this day, those same monks there congregated shall be subject neither to our yoke, nor to that of our relatives, nor to the sway of the royal might, nor to that of any earthly power.

The English words that correspond etymologically to iugum and iuvencus are "yoke" and "young.

See also: Frame, Foundation, Member, Trave, Architecture