資料來源 : pyDict
馬車前端用以系曳繩的橫木
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Whippletree \Whip"ple*tree`\, n. [See {Whip}, and cf.
{Whiffletree}.]
1. The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs,
of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a
plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a
whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See
{Singletree}.
[People] cut their own whippletree in the woodlot.
--Emerson.
2. (Bot.) The cornel tree. --Chaucer.
資料來源 : WordNet®
whippletree
n : a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse
and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling
[syn: {whiffletree}, {swingletree}]