whiffletree

What does whiffletree mean?

whiffletree 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 whiffletree?

whiffletree has 3 syllables and divides as whif-fle-tree under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for whiffletree?

Close synonyms include whippletree, swingletree. 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 whiffletree a common word?

whiffletree 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for whiffletree come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.