The pole or shaft by which a wagon, cart, or other vehicle is attached to the animal drawing it, esp. one of the pair of shafts between which a…

The shaft of a cart or carriage. Obsolete exc. dialect.

? The pole of a cart. Scottish. Obsolete.

The pole or tongue of a cart. In later use U.S. regional (chiefly New England). Now rare.

The pole of a wagon or other vehicle, to which the drawing gear is attached.

the pole of a wagon (used to translate Latin temo).

The pole or shaft of a chariot. Obsolete.

In plural. The thills or shafts of a cart; (in singular) the pair of shafts, ‘the space between the shafts’ (Johnson.

The pole or shaft of a chariot. Also attributive.

The front part of the pole of a chariot.

A chariot-pole. Obsolete. rare.

One of the long bars, between a pair of which a horse is harnessed to a vehicle; a thill. Also (? U.S.) ‘the pole of a carriage, also called tongue…

= range, n.1 7c.

A shaft used in hitching a draught animal to a cart, carriage, etc.; esp. a long tapering wooden shaft fitted to the fore-carriage of a horse-drawn…

= thill, n.1

The shaft of a cart or wagon. Also attributive.

Chiefly English regional. The shafts of a cart, wagon, etc. Now historical and rare.

A shaft running between two horses pulling a coach or carriage. Cf. earlier rangy, n. In later use English regional (chiefly south-western). Now rare.

Chiefly English regional (south-eastern) and U.S. regional (chiefly New England). The pole of a cart or wagon, esp. an ox-cart; a shaft. Cf. nib, n.1…

A shaft of a cart. Usually plural.

Each of the two shafts of a cart or wagon, a hand-barrow, or a wheelbarrow, the ends of which in a barrow form the handles. Scottish.

the pole (pole, n.1 1b) of a carriage or cart, to which the horses or other draught animals are hitched.

= thill, n.1 Also attributive.

In many technical applications. The pole of a wagon or other vehicle; †the head of a plough (obsolete).

English regional. The pole of an ox cart or timber carriage; = neb, n. 5e.

The pole of a wagon.

the pole of a wagon.

A weight-bearing pole in a device, a bearing-shaft. Also: a pole connecting the front and rear axles of a vehicle, esp. a wagon, or linking two…

the projecting pole of a cart on either side of which oxen or horses may be yoked.