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English
Etymology
From swingle + bar.
Noun
swinglebar (plural swinglebars)
- A whippletree.
1849, Thomas De Quincey, “The English Mail-coach, or the Glory of Motion”, in Blackwood's Magazine:Either with the swinglebar, or with the haunch of our near leader, we had struck the off-wheel of the little gig; which stood rather obliquely, and not quite so far advanced as to be accurately parallel with the near wheel.
References
“swinglebar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.