Yoke (unit of measurement)
Unit of measurement
A yoke was a unit of land measurement used in Kent in England at the time of the Domesday Book of 1086 for tax purposes. It was equal to a quarter of a sulung. A sulung was the amount of land which could be ploughed by four ox-pairs (or approximately two hides, thus a yoke was half a hide), therefore a yoke was a pair of oxen, representing the...