Word Meanings - SWINGTREE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree.

Related words: (words related to SWINGTREE)

• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• CARRIAGE
  carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
• FASTENING
  Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
• WHIFFLETREE
  See WHIPPLETREE
• FASTEN
  Etym: 1. To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window. 2. To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
• RECARRIAGE
  Act of carrying back.
• COPPER-FASTENED
  Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
• MISCARRIAGEABLE
  Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. Bp. Hall.
• GINNY-CARRIAGE
  A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad.
• HYDROPNEUMATIC GUN CARRIAGE
  A disappearing gun carriage in which the recoil is checked by cylinders containing liquid and air, the air when compressed furnishing the power for restoring the gun to the firing position. It is used with some English and European heavy guns.
• MISCARRIAGE
  1. Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden. 2. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior;
• REFASTEN
  To fasten again.
• WATER CARRIAGE
  1. Transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water. 2. A vessel or boat. Arbuthnot.