"yoke-devil" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From yoke + devil.",
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          "ref": "1902, Eden Phillpotts, The River:",
          "text": "\"Pride an' ignorance be the yoke-devils as have drawed you into this fix,\" said Chugg bluntly.",
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          "ref": "1976, George Richard Marek, The Bed and the Throne:",
          "text": "Yet it is characteristic of treason and murder among the great that the yoke-devils are not at once noticed by those not directly involved.",
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        "a companion devil"
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        "(archaic) a companion devil"
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          "text": "\"Pride an' ignorance be the yoke-devils as have drawed you into this fix,\" said Chugg bluntly.",
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        "(archaic) a companion devil"
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