whipple tree

A form of whippletree — A wooden crossbar for a plough or carriage, pivoted in the middle, from which traces are fastened to a draught animal.

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Meanings

nounwhipple tree (plural whipple trees)

plural whipple trees

  1. alternativeAlternative form of whippletree.

    Russ: Oh, behind each horse is an iron whipple tree.

    1983, Murray Mednick, Plays from Padua Hills 1982, page 83
    2 more examples

    They had a horse hitched to a whipple tree, and on the whipple tree was a pulley.

    1977, Allan M. Buehler, The Pennsylvania German dialect, page 108

    Normally, the whipple tree is used to generate power through the turning of a gear as the animal pulls a shaft attached to the gear.

    2010, Horse Hoeing Husbandry, page 551
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Chicago

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