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Swingtree — Swing tree , n. The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
swingtree — /swing tree /, n. a whiffletree. [1350 1400; ME; appar. syncopated var. of SWINGLETREE] * * * … Universalium
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] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
