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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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, whippletree, swingletree]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Swingletree \Swin"gle*tree`\, n. [So named in allusion to its swinging. See Swingle, v. i., and cf. Swingtree.] A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

swingletree n 1: 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, whippletree, swingletree]