"It's better than that old singletree of yours," Pea Eye said. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
The trace chains of two horses are attached to this home-made, wooden singletree. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference
The trace chains of the team of horses could be attached to the hooks on the singletree. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference
May also be produced by kicks from other horses, or hocks may be bruised by the singletree. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
It has a double bar, singletree, neck yoke, one grain compartment with eight grain boots, and. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference
This cultivator has individual levers for setting each set of teeth and contains a neck yoke, singletree, and guard shields. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference
We patched up the tugs, fastened them to the singletree with hairpins, hitched up Pinto, drove down to the water hole and filled our cans. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
There in the creek, which was deep but still narrow enough to step across with scarcely a hop, was a catfish that looked longer than a singletree for an ox team, though much greater in girth. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
Several period artifacts were found in the second boat, including a bottle and coin of pre-Civil War date, two corn knives, a singletree (used in hoisting loads), horseshoes, and leather goods. From Wordnik.com. [Vintage Canal Boats] Reference
The rifle clattered against the singletree in its fall. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, You Tex!] Reference
The end of the damaged singletree he re-enforced with his handkerchief. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains] Reference
With a bound he struck the chain-traces from the singletree at Nancy's heels. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Cardinal] Reference
“It’s better than that old singletree of yours,” Pea Eye said. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove] Reference
He rose in his britching and then the other end of him come up and he acted like he wanted to set down on the singletree! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Just and the Unjust] Reference
This singletree is made of wood. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference
It has a neck yoke and a singletree. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference
Get a few tools, such as a saw, square, plane, hatchet, a brace, and a few bits, and before twelve months pass away you will wonder how you ever managed to do without one before; many a singletree or doubletree can be made, or broken implements repaired during leisure, or the rainy days of late winter or spring, and the boys will go there to try their hands, and develop their mechanical skill; exercising both brain and muscle. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference
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