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Definition of whiffletree in English: whiffletreenoun ˈwɪf(ə)ltriːˈ(h)wifəlˌtrē North American A swingletree. Example sentencesExamples - The company made logging tools and parts, maple handles, loading blocks, shackles, chain hocks, load binders, neck yokes, whiffletrees and steel fittings for these.
- I had to get out and let the whiffletrees loose, then the team managed to get out on solid ground.
- The invention of the horse shoe, the whiffletree, and the spring carriage made travel easier.
- Tiny silver chains hang from the whiffletrees and show where the horses belong.
- For fastening the hay-fork rope to the whiffletrees or tying a rope around a calf's neck this knot cannot be excelled.
- A specialized vocabulary described parts of harness fittings such as whiffletrees, reins, breechings, traces, collars, hames and pole straps.
- Also available were supplies such as hay, oats, straw or shavings, harnesses, horse collars, whiffletrees, towlines, horsebridges, fenders, pike poles, and hardware.
- John Kellogg's residence, a board on the front of his wagon in some manner became loosened, and, falling out on the whiffletrees, frightened the animal which Mr. Bovee was driving with his own horse.
- Check the shafts or pole and whiffletrees for cracks and soundness.
- He learned to make axe-handles, whiffletrees, neck-yokes and crude sleds.
- In early times, the farmer made implements and gear, neck yokes, whiffletrees, and wagon boxes with fittings hand forged or bought in a kit.
- When used with mirrors glued with RTV, whiffletrees are simpler to build because they need no slings or edge supports.
- It should also be noted that the base price of each Farm Wagon included whiffletrees, stay chains, wrench, neck yoke or tongue chains, but did not include a seat or a brake.
- The timber is of the highest quality, denser than other oak timber, and in the days of wagons was prized for making whiffletrees.
- This works something like a hollow auger; it is used for cutting tenons on poles, shafts, whiffletrees, etc.
- For this reason it is easy to find discussions of whiffletrees, stone boats, ground hackies, and a rich variety of plow parts and types of broom, but it is impossible to find information about how regular people actually speak today.
- The fat horses of the threshers were not pulling, and his own were doing most of the work, so Peter called out, ‘Henry, touch up your team with your lash, the whiffletrees are dangling against their legs.’
- Ax and hammer handles, as well as wooden axles, whiffletrees, and ox yokes, are examples.
- I put one horse between the shafts and a horse on either side with whiffletrees, and so forth, so that they could all pull even on it.
- The whiffletrees were cut out from beneath Kearney's feet and went with the horse.
Origin Mid 19th century: variant of whippletree. Definition of whiffletree in US English: whiffletreenounˈ(h)wifəlˌtrē North American A singletree. Example sentencesExamples - For fastening the hay-fork rope to the whiffletrees or tying a rope around a calf's neck this knot cannot be excelled.
- Also available were supplies such as hay, oats, straw or shavings, harnesses, horse collars, whiffletrees, towlines, horsebridges, fenders, pike poles, and hardware.
- It should also be noted that the base price of each Farm Wagon included whiffletrees, stay chains, wrench, neck yoke or tongue chains, but did not include a seat or a brake.
- When used with mirrors glued with RTV, whiffletrees are simpler to build because they need no slings or edge supports.
- The whiffletrees were cut out from beneath Kearney's feet and went with the horse.
- A specialized vocabulary described parts of harness fittings such as whiffletrees, reins, breechings, traces, collars, hames and pole straps.
- Check the shafts or pole and whiffletrees for cracks and soundness.
- John Kellogg's residence, a board on the front of his wagon in some manner became loosened, and, falling out on the whiffletrees, frightened the animal which Mr. Bovee was driving with his own horse.
- He learned to make axe-handles, whiffletrees, neck-yokes and crude sleds.
- I put one horse between the shafts and a horse on either side with whiffletrees, and so forth, so that they could all pull even on it.
- The invention of the horse shoe, the whiffletree, and the spring carriage made travel easier.
- In early times, the farmer made implements and gear, neck yokes, whiffletrees, and wagon boxes with fittings hand forged or bought in a kit.
- The timber is of the highest quality, denser than other oak timber, and in the days of wagons was prized for making whiffletrees.
- This works something like a hollow auger; it is used for cutting tenons on poles, shafts, whiffletrees, etc.
- For this reason it is easy to find discussions of whiffletrees, stone boats, ground hackies, and a rich variety of plow parts and types of broom, but it is impossible to find information about how regular people actually speak today.
- The company made logging tools and parts, maple handles, loading blocks, shackles, chain hocks, load binders, neck yokes, whiffletrees and steel fittings for these.
- The fat horses of the threshers were not pulling, and his own were doing most of the work, so Peter called out, ‘Henry, touch up your team with your lash, the whiffletrees are dangling against their legs.’
- Tiny silver chains hang from the whiffletrees and show where the horses belong.
- Ax and hammer handles, as well as wooden axles, whiffletrees, and ox yokes, are examples.
- I had to get out and let the whiffletrees loose, then the team managed to get out on solid ground.
Origin Mid 19th century: variant of whippletree. |