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
We patched up the tugs, fastened them to the singletree with hairpins, hitched up Pinto, drove down to the water hole and filled our cans.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Stephen J. Voorhies
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 Emerson Hough
It has a double bar, singletree, neck yoke, one grain compartment with eight grain boots, and a packing wheel for each boot.
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 John T. Schlebecker
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