Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WHIP'PLE-TREE
WHIP'PLE-TREE, n. [whip and tree; but qu. is it not Whiffle-tree?]
The bar to which the traces or tugs of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, a harrow or other implement is drawn.
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