Associations to the word «Axletree»

Wiktionary

AXLETREE, noun. A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.
AXLETREE, noun. A spindle or axle of a wheel.

Dictionary definition

AXLETREE, noun. A dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheels revolve.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope