When I was a child I remember an old lady csrrying buckets of water from a pump in the village to her house. She had no mains water and six children. She used a yoke to carry the buckets of water.

Another variation of a yoke is the crosspiece that rests behind the neck of a person and from which buckets are suspended to carry water or other heavy loads. Webster’s dictionary also gives the ...

Oksana Shirshova, unemployed, carries a shoulder yoke with two buckets hanging on it after drawing water from the Teryol river in Verkhnyaya Biryusa village, located in the Taiga area near the ...