axletree
a bar, fixed crosswise under an animal-drawn vehicle, with a rounded spindle at each end upon which a wheel rotates.
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How to use axletree in a sentence
We had driven the wagons into a circle, with the tongue of each wagon chained to the hind axletree of the wagon ahead.
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail | Ezra MeekerThe name is something like the breaking of an axletree, wrote Beethoven to Haslinger in October.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3) | Alexander Wheelock ThayerTwo more sections from the big tree formed the wheels, while a square piece of quartering thrust through formed an axletree.
Jethou | E. R. SufflingThe wagon itself was standing in front of the shop, with one end of the hind axletree supported by a block.
Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont | Jacob AbbottTom, however, at length cut the giant such a blow with the axletree on the side of his head, that he nearly reeled over.
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British Dictionary definitions for axletree
/ (ˈæksəlˌtriː) /
a bar fixed across the underpart of a wagon or carriage that has rounded ends on which the wheels revolve
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