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WHIPPLETREES
Noun
whippletrees
plural of whippletree
Source: Wiktionary
WHIPPLETREE
Whip"ple*tree`, n. Etym: [See Whip, and cf. Whiffletree.]
1. The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree. [People] cut their own whippletree in the woodlot. Emerson.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: The cornel tree. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; “he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends”
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