whipple tree

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Noun

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whipple tree (plural whipple trees)

  1. Alternative form of whippletree
    • 1977, Allan M. Buehler, The Pennsylvania German dialect, page 108:
      They had a horse hitched to a whipple tree, and on the whipple tree was a pulley.
    • 1983, Murray Mednick, Plays from Padua Hills 1982, page 83:
      Russ: Oh, behind each horse is an iron whipple tree.
    • 2010, Horse Hoeing Husbandry, page 551:
      Normally, the whipple tree is used to generate power through the turning of a gear as the animal pulls a shaft attached to the gear.
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