whippletree : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: whippletree	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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 Synonym(s): whiffletree, whippletree, swingletree
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whippletree \Whip"pletree`\, n. [See {Whip}, and cf. {Whiffletree}.] 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}. [People] cut their own whippletree* in the woodlot. --Emerson. 2. (Bot.) The cornel tree. --Chaucer.