"whippletree" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "whippletrees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "whippletree (plural whippletrees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, George E. Blakelee, Blakelee's Industrial Cyclopedia, page 364",
          "text": "The single whippletree should have a chain attached to bring it out even with the other two.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964, Albert C. Leighton, Early Medieval Transport, page 128",
          "text": "Like the whippletree, the wheelbarrow only became known in the Middle Ages.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Steven Vogel, Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move",
          "text": "Note the two-horse whippletree on the beam at the lower left. (A whippletree, of which this is the simplest possible, balances the load on the animals.)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a wooden crossbar for a plough or carriage, pivoted in the middle, from which traces are fastened to a draught animal."
      ],
      "id": "en-whippletree-en-noun-X16L27ZL",
      "links": [
        [
          "crossbar",
          "crossbar"
        ],
        [
          "plough",
          "plough"
        ],
        [
          "carriage",
          "carriage"
        ],
        [
          "trace",
          "trace"
        ],
        [
          "draught animal",
          "draught animal"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "splinter bar"
        },
        {
          "word": "swinglebar"
        },
        {
          "word": "swingletree"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "whiffletree"
        },
        {
          "word": "whipple-tree"
        },
        {
          "word": "whipple tree"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whippletree"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whippletrees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "whippletree (plural whippletrees)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, George E. Blakelee, Blakelee's Industrial Cyclopedia, page 364",
          "text": "The single whippletree should have a chain attached to bring it out even with the other two.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964, Albert C. Leighton, Early Medieval Transport, page 128",
          "text": "Like the whippletree, the wheelbarrow only became known in the Middle Ages.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Steven Vogel, Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move",
          "text": "Note the two-horse whippletree on the beam at the lower left. (A whippletree, of which this is the simplest possible, balances the load on the animals.)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a wooden crossbar for a plough or carriage, pivoted in the middle, from which traces are fastened to a draught animal."
      ],
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        [
          "crossbar",
          "crossbar"
        ],
        [
          "plough",
          "plough"
        ],
        [
          "carriage",
          "carriage"
        ],
        [
          "trace",
          "trace"
        ],
        [
          "draught animal",
          "draught animal"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "splinter bar"
    },
    {
      "word": "swinglebar"
    },
    {
      "word": "swingletree"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "whiffletree"
    },
    {
      "word": "whipple-tree"
    },
    {
      "word": "whipple tree"
    }
  ],
  "word": "whippletree"
}