/ · 1894 Brewer’s · W · Wipple-tree or Whipultre
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Mentioned in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale, is the cornel-tree or dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) (= whiffle-tree, from whiffle = to turn).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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