yoke elm

English

Noun

yoke elm (plural yoke elms)

  1. The European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus), a small tree with tough white wood, often used for making yokes for cattle.
  2. A Himalayan hornbeam (Carpinus vimineus).
  3. The wood from these trees.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for yoke elm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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