What is "yoked together"

Usage examples of "yoked together".

Or, lastly, is it neither the soul alone nor the body alone, but both together, which are man, the body and the soul being each a part, but the whole man being both together, as we call two horses yoked together a pair, of which pair the near and the off horse is each a part, but we do not call either of them, no matter how connected with the other, a pair, but only both together?

They are yoked together in pairs with forked tree trunks about their necks in the usual manner.

Tied by the head to the stern, and by the tail to the bows, the whale now lies with its black hull close to the vessel's and seen through the darkness of the night, which obscured the spars and rigging aloft, the two--ship and whale, seemed yoked together like colossal bullocks, whereof one reclines while the other remains standing.

Still again both seemed yoked together, and an unseen tyrant driving them.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?

The two powerful out-boards, yoked together, were managed by a single lever.