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Example sentences for "whiffletree"

Lexicographically close words:
whider; whie; whiff; whiffed; whiffing; whiffling; whiffs; whil; while; whiled
  1. His face turned white with fear, and he tore a whiffletree from the wagon, which with a push he sent rolling into the thick of them, so that they fell back in confusion.

  2. This made an open space between him and Erik, and Erik sprang quickly over the pole, with his knife ready to strike; but as he sprang, the whiffletree descended upon his head.

  3. You kicked me and my friend the Whiffletree that day you ran away down in the hay field," replied the Wagon.

  4. I saw a horse sitting on a whiffletree once, but that was down on the ground and not up here, so, of course, you see the chances are that I'm not that.

  5. The idea of a whiffletree as one of the spars of a ship, amused the crew, and our volunteer sailors were thereafter denominated "the Whiffletree Watch.

  6. There," exclaimed one of them, "that whiffletree has gone to the devil!

  7. The clevis pin or whiffletree bolt, B, attached to the center of the carriage, C.

  8. The independent attachment of the draught clevis to the whiffletree bolt to permit the independent oscillation of the whiffletree without affecting the clevis.

  9. The axle and hind wheels of a light wagon, two strong straight-grained shafts about 4 feet too long, a whiffletree and a spring seat are the principal parts of a colt-breaking sulky.

  10. A whiffletree pulley doubles the speed of the fork.

  11. The whiffletree is attached to the tumbling rod by an iron hook.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whiffletree" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.