singletree

American  

[sing-guhl-tree] / ˈsɪŋ gəlˌtri /

noun

1. whiffletree.

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singletree British  

/ ˈsɪŋɡəlˌtriː /

noun

1. a variant, esp US and Austral, of swingletree

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Etymology

Origin of singletree

1835–45, variant of swingletree

Example Sentences

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

It has a neck yoke and a singletree.

From Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 by Schlebecker, John T.

The end of the damaged singletree he re-enforced with his handkerchief.

From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson

If your singletree chain broke, you fixed it wid mulberry skins; same wid your galluses.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration