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axle-tree

axle-tree is the alternative form of axletree.

Meaning of axletree

Noun

axletree (plural axletrees)

  1. A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.
    Synonyms:
    axlerod
  2. A spindle or axle of a wheel.
  3. A stimulus or driving force.
    • Soon after his arrival, that patent axletree of action, the not knowing what to do with himself, domesticated him during some weeks of the shooting season at Sillery House...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 80

Forms of axle-tree

pluralaxle-trees

Questions about axle-tree

What is axle-tree the alternative form of?
Axle-tree is the alternative form of axletree.

Words near axle-tree in the dictionary

  1. axle weights
  2. axle-box
  3. axle-boxes
  4. axle-driven
  5. axle-hung
  6. axle-tree
  7. axlebox
  8. axleboxes
  9. axled
  10. axleguard
  11. axleguards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: axle-tree (page history and authors); axletree (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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