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

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Example Sentences

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singletree

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

Mr. Burns alluded to an aparejo or an arroyo as casually as Jack would say "singletree" or "furrow," and his stories brought the distant plains country very near.

From The Eagle's Heart by Hamlin Garland

This cultivator has individual levers for setting each set of teeth and contains a neck yoke, singletree, and guard shields.

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

I cultivate my orchard with corn or potatoes for ten or fifteen years, using a small one-horse stirring plow, wrapping the ends of the singletree.

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