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whipple tree en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of whippletree.
Russ: Oh, behind each horse is an iron whipple tree.
1983, Murray Mednick, Plays from Padua Hills 1982, page 83: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.
2010, Horse Hoeing Husbandry, page 551:They had a horse hitched to a whipple tree, and on the whipple tree was a pulley.
1977, Allan M. Buehler, The Pennsylvania German dialect, page 108:
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