Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
SINGLETREE
Etymology
Noun
singletree (plural singletrees)
A bar behind draft animals and in front of a load, such as a wagon, that balances the load. Generally the animals are attached at the ends and the wagon or other load to a pivot in the middle of the singletree.
Synonyms
• swingletree
• whippletree
Source: Wiktionary
Sin"gle*tree`, n. Etym: [Cf. Swingletree.]
Definition: The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.
Note: When two horses draw abreast, a singletree is fixed at each end of another crosspiece, called the doubletree.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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