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Webster 1913 Edition
Whippletree
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.
Definition 2024
whippletree
whippletree
English
Noun
whippletree (plural whippletrees)
- a wooden crossbar for a plough or carriage, pivoted in the middle, from which traces are fastened to a draught animal