swingtree
nounEtymology From swing + tree.
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Dated The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened.
- In this mode of yoking, the horses work in unicorn-team, the middle horse pulling by the soam- chain, instead of the swingtree1858, James Slight, Robert Scott Burn, The Book of Farm Implements and Machines:
- Synonyms
- draft-bar, singletree, swingletree, whiffletree, whippletree