They can take a yoke

The answer

OXEN

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OXEN answer page.

Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for OXEN

Every other clue in this collection answered by OXEN, most used first.

• Plow pullers - used 135 times, most recently in 2026
• The yoke's on them - used 110 times, most recently in 2026
• Farm team - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
• Beasts of burden - used 82 times, most recently in 2025
• Draft animals - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
• Yoked animals - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Yoked team - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Yoked pair - used 33 times, most recently in 2023
• Yoked beasts - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Work animals - used 25 times, most recently in 2023
• Plow-pulling animals - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Cart pullers - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
• Plow-pulling beasts - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Farm animals. - used 17 times, most recently in 2014
• Plow team - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Big bovines - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Bovines. - used 13 times, most recently in 1999
• Plow animals - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Plow-pulling bovines - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Team members - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Plow-pulling pair - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Plow-pulling team - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• "Olly olly ___ free" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Yaks - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Yoke pair - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• Bovine beasts of burden - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Ex-bulls - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• Bovine team - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Field team - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Plow-pulling farm team - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Yoke wearers - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• Certain field workers - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Farm workers - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Plow beasts - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Plowing pair - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Teamed beasts - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• They have pull - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Yoked farm animals - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Yoked yaks - used 6 times, most recently in 2022

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• Take it easy - REST, used 162 times
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