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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Upper Northern U.S. See whiffletree. See Regional Note at whiffletree.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as whiffle tree.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a wooden crossbar for a plough or carriage, pivoted in the middle, from which traces are fastened to a draught animal

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. 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.
  2. n. (Bot.) The cornel tree.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling

Etymologies

  1. Perhaps blend of dialectal whippin, whippletree and swingletree. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The colter needed sharpening and there was a crack in the whippletree.”

    The Boat of a Million Years

  • “After three quarters of an hour or so I was suddenly startled alert by hearing the squeak-squeak of a whippletree out on the lawn.”

    The Four Pools Mystery

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. whiffletree
  1. swingletree
  1. crossbar
  1. singletree
  1. splinter bar

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. crossbar

reverse dictionary (3)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. whiffletree
  1. draft-equalizer
  1. swingletree

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