Today’s item is a shoulder yoke. It is a three-and-a-half foot section of a large timber carved to fit a man’s shoulders with cylindrical projections on either end. The idea of the yoke is to enable a ...

The letter Y has proven to be as challenging as the letter X! Will this ever end? Fortunately, perhaps, we are down to the last two remaining letters of the alphabet: Y and Z. Y is for yoke.

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