whiffletree

How To Use whiffletree In A Sentence

• Tiny silver chains hang from the whiffletrees and show where the horses belong.
• This works something like a hollow auger; it is used for cutting tenons on poles, shafts, whiffletrees, etc.
• The fat horses of the threshers were not pulling, and his own were doing most of the work, so Peter called out, ‘Henry, touch up your team with your lash, the whiffletrees are dangling against their legs.’
• The whiffletrees were cut out from beneath Kearney's feet and went with the horse.
• John Kellogg's residence, a board on the front of his wagon in some manner became loosened, and, falling out on the whiffletrees, frightened the animal which Mr. Bovee was driving with his own horse.
• The timber is of the highest quality, denser than other oak timber, and in the days of wagons was prized for making whiffletrees.
• The invention of the horse shoe, the whiffletree, and the spring carriage made travel easier.
• Check the shafts or pole and whiffletrees for cracks and soundness.
• For fastening the hay-fork rope to the whiffletrees or tying a rope around a calf's neck this knot cannot be excelled.
• The company made logging tools and parts, maple handles, loading blocks, shackles, chain hocks, load binders, neck yokes, whiffletrees and steel fittings for these.