whiffletree
U.S. variant of whippletree.
| 1842 W. P. Hawes Sporting Scenes II. 69 Our whiffle⁓tree became detached from the vehicle, and fell upon the horse's heels. 1855 Bristed in Cambr. Ess. 65 Whiffle-tree, the invariable American for splinter-bar. 1868 Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric. (1869) 256 A boy can lead a horse, with a suitable chain attached to the whiffletree. 1896 Century Mag. Nov. 23 With trace-chains rattling and whiffletrees snapping over the stumps of trees. |