swingletree

1. 1.

   a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling

   Synonymswhiffletreewhippletree

   Broadercrossbar

Other forms of swingletree

plural

swingletrees·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about swingletree

What does swingletree mean?

swingletree means "a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling".

How many syllables are in swingletree?

swingletree has 3 syllables: swin-gle-tree. The stress falls on "swin".

What is another word for swingletree?

Close synonyms include whiffletree, whippletree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swingletree a common word?

swingletree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.