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Same as Whippletree.

pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.

n embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. Knight.

In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.

on the ground. -- Roller bolt, the bar in a carriage to which the traces are attached; a whiffletree. [Eng.] -- Roller gin, a cotton gin inn which rolls are used for separating the seeds from the fiber. -- Roller mill. See under Mill. -- Roller skate, a skate which has small wheels in the place of the metallic runne…

The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.

The bar to which the traces are attached; a roller bolt; a whiffletree.

A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.

The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree.

two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.

y made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree. [People] cut their own whippletree in the woodlot. Emerson.