doubletree

dou·ble·tree

[duhb-uhl-tree]
noun
a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.

Origin:
1840–50, Americanism; modeled on singletree

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doubletree (ˈdʌbəlˌtriː) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a horizontal pivoted bar on a vehicle to the ends of which swingletrees are attached for harnessing two horses side by side

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Doubletree is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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