iugum

Definitions

• yoke (for oxen) or collar (for a horse)
• (by extension) a team of oxen
• horizontal beam or rail fastened perpendicular to a post, especially an architectural crossbeam
• 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 makeshift archway of three spears under which a vanquished enemy was made to pass in humiliation
• a scalebeam, and hence, by metonymy, a pair of scales
• the constellation Libra
• summit of a mountain or ridge of a mountain or range of mountains
• A unit of land measurement in the Roman province of Hispania, determined to be the amount of land which a yoke of oxen can reasonably plough in one day
• (figuratively) bond (of slavery, matrimony, etc.)