'Whippletree' definitions:
Definition of 'whippletree'
(from WordNet)
noun
A crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling [syn: whiffletree, whippletree, swingletree]
Definition of 'Whippletree'
From: GCIDE
- Whippletree \Whip"ple*tree`\, n. [See Whip, and cf. Whiffletree.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- [People] cut their own whippletree in the woodlot. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) The cornel tree. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]