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YOKE
YOKE, a name formerly given to the tiller, when communicating with two blocks or sheaves affixed to the inner end of the tiller. It is now applied to a small board or bar which crosses the upper end of a boat's rudder at right angles, and having two small cords extending from its opposite extremities to the stern-sheets of the boat, whereby the is steered as with a tiller.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 328, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1533.html