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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A wooden crossbar for a plough or carriage, pivoted in the middle, from which traces are fastened to a draught animal..
The single whippletree should have a chain attached to bring it out even with the other two.
Like the whippletree, the wheelbarrow only became known in the Middle Ages.
Note the two-horse whippletree on the beam at the lower left. (A whippletree, of which this is the simplest possible, balances the load on the animals.)
Use whipple tree when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Whipple tree means A wooden crossbar for a plough or carriage, pivoted in the middle, from which traces are fastened to a draught animal..
Common synonyms include splinter bar, swinglebar, swingletree, whiffletree.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The single whippletree should have a chain attached to bring it out even with the other two.
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