swingtree

English

Etymology

swing +‎ tree

Noun

swingtree (plural swingtrees)

1. The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened.
   • 1858, James Slight, Robert Scott Burn, The Book of Farm Implements and Machines:

     In this mode of yoking, the horses work in unicorn-team, the middle horse pulling by the soam- chain, instead of the swingtree

Synonyms

• draught bar
• singletree
• swingletree
• whiffletree
• whippletree

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “swingtree”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• westering