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

[From English swingle, wooden instrument used for beating flax, from Middle English, from Middle Dutch swinghel.]

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