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Bar on a wagon
Answer for the clue "Bar on a wagon ", 10 letters:
singletree
Alternative clues for the word singletree
Word definitions for singletree in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Singletree \Sin"gle*tree`\, n. [Cf. Swingletree .] The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree. Note: When two horses draw abreast, a singletree is fixed at each end of another crosspiece, called the doubletree. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A bar behind draft animals and in front of a load, such as a wagon, that balances the load. Generally the animals are attached at the ends and the wagon or other load to a pivot in the middle of the singletree.
Usage examples of singletree.
He had then had three dozen sets of running gear reduced to component parts, had had a pair of master wagonmakers scrutinize and test every wheel-rim spoke, axletree, singletree, doubletree, bolster, pole, and hub.
He just brought the mules up and turned them side by side while Boon and Ned hooked the trace chains to the singletrees and then Boon squatted in the mud to make the log chain fast to the car.
An open carriage like a large sleigh on two wheels, it had a bench seat with blue velvet squabs, and a scroll-like singletree like the prow of a ship.
I wondered who among the Dkota knew about singletrees and eveners, or recognized the potential in a roof beam and a pair of wheels.
And I notices that the folks that brings it up aint even Edmondses:” whereupon the white man even as he sprang up reached blindly back where on the counter behind him lay a half-dozen plow singletrees and snatched one of them up and had already started the downswing when the son of the store’s proprietor, himself a youngish active man, came either around or over the counter and grasped the other so that the singletree merely flew harmlessly across the aisle and crashed against the cold stove.