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A crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling
Answer for the clue "A crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling ", 11 letters:
whiffletree
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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: whippletree , swingletree ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context US English) a whippletree
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whiffletree \Whif"fle*tree`\, n. Same as Whippletree .
Usage examples of whiffletree.
A huge bat flew down, landed on the whiffletree, and turned into a leering vampire.
Several men nearest the whiffletree moved in with quick precision and loosened it from the anchor.
Yitzach said, as he checked the attachment of the harnesses to the whiffletree of his wagon.
Joby holding the mules like they were sitting down on the whiffletrees and his mouth hanging open and his eyes like two eggs, and I had forgotten what the blue coats looked like.
It had no tongue, but a long loop of chain was fastened to the wide-apart runners and the whiffletrees were fastened to the chain.
If our buttonhooks, our firedogs, our whiffletrees, our bootjacks, our cheese presses are all badly designed and a disgrace, then let someone else remove that disgrace.