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Harness :: Harness (n.) The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling..

Guib :: Guib (n.) A West African antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), curiously marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground, and hence called harnessed antelope; -- called also guiba..

Drawboy :: Drawboy (n.) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office..

Terret :: Terret (n.) One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass..

Tandem :: Tandem (adv. & a.) One after another; -- said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast..

Harnesser :: Harnesser (n.) One who harnesses.

Heddling :: Heddling (vb. n.) The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself.

Gear :: Gear (n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

Caparison :: Caparison (n.) An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative..

But :: But (v. t.) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks..

Plate :: Plate (v. t.) To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness..

Inclose :: Inclose (v. t.) To put into harness; to harness.

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness..

Caparison :: Caparison (v. t.) To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse..

Martingal :: Martingal (n.) The act of doubling, at each stake, that which has been lost on the preceding stake; also, the sum so risked; -- metaphorically derived from the bifurcation of the martingale of a harness..

Unharness :: Unharness (v. t.) To disarm; to divest of armor.

Heddle :: Heddle (n.) One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom..

Break :: Break (v. t.) To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle..

Harnessed :: Harnessed (imp. & p. p.) of Harnes.

Whippletree :: Whippletree (n.) The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree..

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