Category:Whippletree

Whip"ple*tree`, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: the cornel tree. Chaucer.