singletree
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of singletree
1835–45, variant of swingletree
Example Sentences
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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
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
They sprang forward, and disengaging themselves with a jerk, by pulling out the staple of the main singletree, they set off at full speed with the singletree rattling at their heels.”
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse
Cultivate with five-tooth cultivator with twenty-inch singletree, and a mule; up to bearing age, with corn and potatoes as a ground crop; after that seed to clover.
From The Apple by Various
Seizing the tug with one hand and the singletree with the other, Franklin fairly swept the obdurate beast off its balance as he forced it to its place at the pole.
From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson
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