singletree
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of singletree
1835–45, variant of swingletree
Example Sentences
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I had to talk mean and threaten him with a club before we could get him close enough for Mama to hook the singletree over the loop of rope I’d tied around the bull’s horns.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
Then suddenly he saw that he was under the black cypress, under the very singletree where the pigs were hung.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
If I had the true business spirit I should have gone by the beaten road from my house to Horace's, borrowed the singletree I went for, and hurried straight home.
From Great Possessions by Grayson, David
Cultivate shallow, with one horse, and light plow with very short singletree.
From The Apple by Various
The rifle clattered against the singletree in its fall.
From Oh, You Tex! by Raine, William MacLeod
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