2. In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.
EVENFALL
E"ven*fall`, n.
Defn: Beginning of evening. "At the quiet evenfall." Tennyson.
EVENHAND
E"ven*hand`, n.
Defn: Equality. [Obs.] Bacon.
EVENHANDED
E"ven*hand`ed, a.
Defn: Fair or impartial; unbiased. "Evenhanded justice." Shak.
— E"ven*hand`ed*ly, adv.
— E"ven*hand`ed*ness, n.
EVENING
E"ven*ing, n. Etym: [AS. æfnung. See even, n., and cf. Eve.]
1. The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum. In the ascending scale Of heaven, the stars that usher evening rose. Milton.
Note: Sometimes, especially in the Southern parts of the United
States, the afternoon is called evening. Bartlett.