whipple tree

English

Noun

whipple tree (plural whipple trees)

1. Alternative form of whippletree
   • 1977, Allan M. Buehler, The Pennsylvania German dialect, page 108:

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

   • 1983, Murray Mednick, Plays from Padua Hills 1982, page 83:

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

   • 2010, Horse Hoeing Husbandry, page 551:

     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.