yokefellow

noun

1. A companion; a fellow labourer, a person who works at the same task as another.

   “I’ll see their trial first. Bring in their evidence. / [To Edgar] Thou, robed man of justice, take thy place. / [To the Fool] And thou, his yokefellow of equity, / Bench by his side.”

   ““[…] If two people like each other, why shouldn’t they consent to live together?” / “They tire of each other—they tire of each other in a month. A yokefellow is not a companion; he or she is a fellow-sufferer.””

   “Brain and hand, and means and muscle, are true yokefellows in modern industrialism. Without the inventor, there could be no machinery...”

   “Jesus treats his disciples as yokefellows rather than as camels and donkeys to be loaded down (23:4).”

2. (archaic)Someone joined in marriage to another; a spouse.

   “[H]is industrious yoke-fellow executed every circumstance of the plan she had projected; so that, when he recovered his vision, he was an utter stranger in his own house.”

   “...till new grounds of quarrel had arisen between the two unequal yokefellows who were at last fully coupled together.”