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Swingletree - Wikipedia
A swingletree (British Isles) or singletree (North America) is a small wooden or metal bar behind a harnessed horse. It is used to balance the pull of a ...
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SWINGLETREE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SWINGLETREE is whiffletree.
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SWINGLETREE definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
A crossbar in a horse's harness to which the ends of the traces are attached Also called: whippletree.... Click for pronunciations, examples sentences, ...
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swingletree
swingletree (ˈswɪŋg(ə)ltriː) Forms: see swingle and tree. [f. swingle n.1 + tree n.] 1. A board used in dressing flax or hemp: = swing-stock, swingle-stock (see swing- 2 b, swingle-). Also called swingletree block. swingletree dagger = swing-knife (swing- 2 b), swingle n.1 1. Obs. or dial.c 1462 Wri...
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SWINGLETREE Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
noun. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.. a whiffletree. swingletree. / ˈswɪŋɡəlˌtriː /. noun. Also called: whippletree. whiffletree. a crossbar ...
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Swingletree – Glossary Topic - The Joseph Smith Papers
A pivoted crossbar where the traces or harness would be fastened in a plough or carriage, allowing movement of the attached horse or other draft animal. 1.
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Swingletree - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
The meaning "framework of a saddle" is from 1530s. A tree-nail (Middle English) was a wooden peg or pin used in ship-building.
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swingletree - WordReference.com Dictionary of English
swingletree /ˈswɪŋɡəlˌtriː/ n. a crossbar in a horse's harness to which the ends of the traces are attachedAlso called: whippletree.
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Swingletree - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling.
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Whippletree (mechanism)
A swingletree, or singletree, is a special kind of whippletree used for a horse-drawn vehicle. The term swingletree is sometimes used for draught whippletrees.
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whippletree
▪ I. † ˈwhippletree1 Obs. Of uncertain origin and meaning. Usually glossed ‘cornel-tree’ and compared with MLG. wipelbôm, which, with wiepen- and weipkenbôm, glosses L. cornus. (In the absence of a French gloss in quot. 1530, the identity of the word intended is doubtful.)c 1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 20...
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swing-tree
swing-tree (ˈswɪŋtriː) = swingletree 2.1396–7 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 214, iiij harpice cum iij Swyngtreys ferreis. 1802 James Milit. Dict., Swing⁓tree of a waggon. 1812 Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. ii. App. 46 The..swing-trees, to which the horses are attached when ploughing. 1883 Jefferie...
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swingle-
swingle- in comb.: swingle-bar = swingletree 2; † swingle-foot, = swingle n.1 1; also attrib.; † swingle foot hards (see quot.); † swingle-head (?), -staff = swingle n.1 1; swingle-stick, -stock = swing-stock (swing- 2 b); swingle-tail, name for a species of shark, = thrasher1 2; swingle-wand = swin...
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