whipple tree
English
Noun
whipple tree (plural whipple trees)
- Alternative form of whippletree
- 1977, Allan M. Buehler, The Pennsylvania German dialect, page 108:
- They had a horse hitched to a whipple tree, and on the whipple tree was a pulley.
- 1983, Murray Mednick, Plays from Padua Hills 1982, page 83:
- Russ: Oh, behind each horse is an iron whipple tree.
- 2010, Horse Hoeing Husbandry, page 551:
- Normally, the whipple tree is used to generate power through the turning of a gear as the animal pulls a shaft attached to the gear.
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