ox-yoke

On the opposite side of the hearth, Zenas was crouched upon the floor, laboriously shaping an ox-yoke with a spoke-shave.

Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

As the statement about the slung-shot blow was made by a man who disputed the ox-yoke accident, and that the fatal hurts were received in the free fight at the camp-meeting, it was necessary that he should be explicit.

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

The feeling ran so high that at one time the end of a wagon-tongue was propped up with an ox-yoke by some of the emigrants with the intention of hanging Reed thereon, but calmer counsel prevailed.

History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra

Thar in that poked up mess o 'dirt, you see yon weeny chip of ox-yoke?

The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920

As the statement about the slung-shot blow was made by a man who disputed the ox-yoke accident, and that the fatal hurts were received in the free fight at the camp-meeting, it was necessary that he should be explicit.

The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907

Also the pole was propped up with an ox-yoke so as to make the vehicle level to lie in.

Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Tyler Sudley's face turned gray, despite his belligerent efficiencies, when his wife, hearing the clank of the ox-yoke as it was flung down in the shed outside, divined the home-coming of the ploughman and his team, and slipped out to the barn with her news.

The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

She winced to tell him what had happened, but she it was who, bracing her nerves, made the disclosure, for Sudley remained silent, the end of the ox-yoke in his trembling hands, his head bare to the moon and the dew, his face grown lined and old.

The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

The two negroes at the end of the vista beyond the shed-room, with the ox-yoke and plough-gear which they were mending between them, opened wide mouths and became immovable save for the whites of astonished rolling eyes.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Saddles and spinning-wheels, an ox-yoke and trace-chains, reels and wash-tubs, were incongruously pushed together in the corners.

His "Day In Court" 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886