[The first element is app. f. WHIP; cf. WHIPPIN.] = SWINGLETREE 2.

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1733.  W. Ellis, Chiltern & Vale Farm., 319. Two Whipple-trees of two Foot sixteen Inches each, that the Horses draw by.

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1790.  Trans. Soc. Arts, VIII. 244. A Spring and Index fixed to a Whipple-tree for ascertaining the force exerted in the Draught of Carriages.

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1834.  Brit. Husb., I. 165. These carts are capable of being drawn either by two horses abreast, or by the same number at length; for which purpose there are suitable staples fixed for hanging the whipple-tree upon.

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1891.  Malden, Tillage, 110. Iron Whippletrees for Two Horses Abreast.

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