Found 2 items, similar to Whippletree.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: whippletree
whippletree
n : a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse
and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling
[syn:
whiffletree,
swingletree]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Whippletree
Whippletree
\Whip"ple*tree`\, n. [See
Whip, and cf.
Whiffletree.]
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1. The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs,
of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a
plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a
whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See
Singletree.
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[People] cut their own whippletree in the woodlot.
--Emerson.
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2. (Bot.) The cornel tree. --Chaucer.
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