Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cross-bar, pivoted at the middle, to which the traces are fastened in a cart, carriage, plow, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A whiffletree, or whippletree. See
singletree .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
whippletree
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The mare crashed into the rockaway on one side and the bay shattered the swingletree on the other with the forewheel of our buggy.
A Circuit Rider's Wife Corra Harris 1902
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I sat in the buggy, holding the reins over the trembling, wild-eyed bay, while William descended and, with great dignity, tied up the disabled swingletree.
A Circuit Rider's Wife Corra Harris 1902
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The string was led off by a pair of steady leaders, hitched by a swingletree to the end of the picket rope, the whole thus presenting a team of about twelve or fifteen pairs of horses.
Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil wars, 1894
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"Well, onct ole Hank Swartzman swatted him over the head with a swingletree.
The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Emerson Hough 1890
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