Axletree

"I almost wish I could threaten you with a fever, or something serious; but I see you are as sound as that 'axletree' our friend spoke of the other day. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

Now it was only half over the wheels, now it hid the axletree, and now the coach sank down in it almost to the windows. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The driver composedly shouted to us to alight; the hole was only deep enough to sink the vehicle to the axletree. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Perhaps it was well for his cattle that the axletree gave way and the chaise of course overturned, before they had travelled one-third part of the stage. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Owing to the irregularities of the surface the axletree of one of our carts gave way this day. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Maybe it was sight of the axletree, maybe it was just the roiling confusion of his life, but he felt fury rise in him like that he felt in the dreams where he swung a sword. ❋ Unknown (1997)

He was alone again in his head; the laughing figure who'd measured the six guards for a single stroke of the massive axletree had gone back to wherever it was that he watched and waited. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Garric had hung the oil lamp on the axletree leaning near the stable door; the cartwheels were beside it. ❋ Unknown (1997)

The axletree lying nearby had crushed the skull and broken the left collarbone as well as several of the upper ribs. ❋ Unknown (1997)

He dropped the bridle and reached down for the axletree. ❋ Unknown (1997)

"The axletree from inside the stable," Cashel corrected automatically. ❋ Unknown (1997)

The massive oaken axletree brushed the cutlass aside and crushed the creature itself with a squelch and a snapping of bones. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Two fishermen had wrapped the lich in an old tarpaulin and dumped it in a hundred fathoms of water, but the axletree still lay where Garric had dropped it in the early hours of the morning. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Garric stepped out of the stable with an axletree that Cashel himself would have found a burden. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Murf went to Sharpsburgh in the evening took the front wheels of the small Wagon to have the axletree ironed. ❋ Unknown (1961)

One wheel was gone; the tilted axletree plowed the earth. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)

I said to the men beside me, "Lift up the axletree." ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)

On the axletree and tongue rests a frame, constructed of square pieces of timber, six or eight feet in length, and four or five in breadth, into which are inserted a number of stakes about, four feet in length. ❋ Edwin Bryant (N/A)

These wheels are coupled together by an axletree, into which a tongue is inserted. ❋ Edwin Bryant (N/A)

A door or a gate serves its purpose by an application wholly foreign to itself, but it is a good and effective, or a bad and ineffective, piece of construction, independently of the posts to which it may be hung, whilst the wheel of a wheelbarrow, comprising felloes, spokes and axletree, is a piece of construction complete in itself, and independent as such of everything beyond it. ❋ Various (N/A)