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单词 weigh-tree
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weigh-treen.

Brit. /ˈweɪtriː/, U.S. /ˈweɪˌtri/
Forms: 1500s 1800s– way-tree, 1800s– wey-tree, 1900s– weigh-tree.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: weigh v.1, tree n.
Etymology: Apparently < weigh v.1 (although this is first attested later with reference to a weight-bearing pole; compare weigh n.1 3) + tree n.
Chiefly English regional (midlands). Now rare.
= swingletree n. 2. Also: spec. the largest of the three units of a swingletree; = evener n. 2b.
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plough-strake1395
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weigh-tree1578
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1578 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 94 A brydell..2 waytrees..5 yonge horse and mares.
1837 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) II. ii. 24 A cross-bar, called a ‘way-tree’, attached at each end to the bulls by short chains, and fastened by moveable pins.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 35 Sway-tree, Swingel-tree, and Way-tree, are synonymous in different parts of the county.
1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 726/3 Way-tree, (Lincolns.), the largest tree of the three ‘swingle-trees’.
1879 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 856 All the ground was then harrowed with light harrows..attached to a long ‘wey-tree’, or whipple-tree, with a horse hooked on at each end, driven by a man from behind with reins.
1903 Jrnl. Board Agric. 10 301 The most suitable and convenient arrangement would be a single spiral spring fastened on to the central draught hook of the wey-tree of a set of whipple trees.
1969 H. Orton & P. M. Tilling Surv. Eng. Dial. III. i. 132 Evener,..[Hertfordshire, Essex] Weigh-tree.
1981 N. Rayner & K. Chivers Heavy Horse Man. vi. 122 The middles of the two draught-bars are hooked to a weigh-tree, and the centre of the weigh-tree is hooked to the plough.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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