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Whippletree

Noun

whip=ple=tree

WORDNET DICTIONARY

whippletree(n = noun.artifact) swingletree, whiffletree - a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling;

is a kind of crossbar

Whippletree, n. [See Whip, and cf. Whiffletree.].

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." [1913 Webster]
The cornel tree. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Whippletree, n. = SWINGLETREE.

Etymology

app. f. WHIP + TREE