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"Axletree" Quotes from Famous Books

... Laramie, we had the experience of a night stampede that struck terror to the heart of man and beast. It so happened that we had brought our cattle into camp that evening, a thing we did not usually do. We had driven the wagons into a circle, with the tongue of each wagon chained to the hind axletree of the wagon ahead. The cattle were led inside the circle and the tents were ...

— Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail • Ezra Meeker

... lumbering, square concern of a dingy yellow colour (like a bilious brunette), with very small glasses, but very large frames; the panels are ornamented with a faded coat of arms, in shape something like a dissected bat, the axletree is red, and the majority of the wheels are green. The box is partially covered by an old great-coat, with a multiplicity of capes, and some extraordinary-looking clothes; and the straw, with which the canvas cushion is stuffed, is sticking up in several places, ...

— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens

... primitive in construction: The shafts being about five feet long, and of hickory or oak, with crosspieces, one of them serving for a handle, forming the bed of the cart, under the centre of which was a wooden axletree, the wheels being also made of wood, with a light iron band, and the entire weight of the vehicle about sixty pounds. Better carts ...

— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman

Words linked to "Axletree" : waggon, cart, carriage, dead axle, wagon, rig, axle bar, equipage