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whippin dial.|ˈhwɪpɪn|
Also 7 wippin, 8 whipping, 9 w(h)ippon, whippence.
[Origin obscure.]
= whippletree2. Also whippintree.
1697in Sussex Archæol. Collect. VI. 195 One wagon Ready to Runn..Six yoakes..Five wippins. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 72 The plough-beam, sprinter, whippings, and traces must often break when they come against a great stone. 1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 29 July 1775, I..intend that he..shall attend to the spread-bats and whippins. Ibid. 26 Dec. 1775, 7 Iron trace whippins, 2 Setts of hempen trace ditto. 1811T. Davis Agric. Wilts 263 Whippence, viz. the weigh-beam and bodkins, the fore carriage of a plough, as also of the harrow and drag. 1855Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XVI. i. 113 They [sc. horses drawing a plough] should be worked abreast (the attachment being by means of ‘wippons’). 1884West Sussex Gaz. 25 Sept., 10 sets of drag and small harrows, whippons and traces. 1919R. P. Chope Some Old Farm Implements 13 The modern harrows are made entirely of iron, and the parts are not hinged together, but to a wooden cross-beam which is connected to the whippintree. |