disselboom

/ ˈdɪsəlˌbʊəm /

noun

1. the main haulage shaft of a wagon or cart

Word History and Origins

Origin of disselboom¹

from Afrikaans dissel shaft + boom beam

Example Sentences

You can hardly take up a paper anywhere without seeing a paragraph headed ‘The Disselboom again.’

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“Now I am ready,” he said, rising and strolling over to the waggon, where he seated himself on the disselboom.

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Then we all went, leaving Henri Marais still cutting up his tobacco on the disselboom.

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Slipping quickly over the driver's seat, he dropped between the two "wheelers" to the disselboom, or tongue, of the trek wagon.

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The oxen are not yet made fast to the disselboom for the night, and one of my natives is away to collect them.

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