singletree

[ sing-guh l-tree ]

/ ˈsɪŋ gəlˌtri /

Origin of singletree

1835–45, Americanism; variant of swingletree

This cultivator has individual levers for setting each set of teeth and contains a neck yoke, singletree, and guard shields.

Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology |John T. Schlebecker
After several refusals, Singletree, Darnley & Co. accepted it, promising fall publication.

Martin Eden |Jack London
He was often given a singletree, with which he marched along, showing evident satisfaction.

Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 3 [August 1902] |Various
Then looking at the singletree for a moment picked it up and put it through between the rails.

Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 3 [August 1902] |Various

If your singletree chain broke, you fixed it wid mulberry skins; same wid your galluses.

Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 |Works Projects Administration

singletree

/ (ˈsɪŋɡəlˌtriː) /

a variant, esp US and Austral, of swingletree