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n. - A crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling.

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Usage examples (14)
  • "It's the whiffletree, I think," she said, as if she were used to wagons.
  • A huge bat flew down, landed on the whiffletree, and turned into a leering vampire.
  • This did not offend the young plowman, to judge by the expression of his face; but he said nothing, and, stooping down, loosened the chains of the whiffletree and turned...
  • And the Bates family watched out the window while Coach Bob put little Win in the driver's seat, gripped the whiffletree in his hands behind his back, and heaved the...
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