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

Team :: Team (n.) Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like..

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

Tug :: Tug (n.) A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness..

Unharness :: Unharness (v. t.) To strip of harness; to loose from harness or gear; as, to unharness horses or oxen..

Harness :: Harness (v. t.) To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively..

Harness :: Harness (v. t.) To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array..

Bellyband :: Bellyband (n.) A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.

Kind :: Kind (superl.) Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness..

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..

Singletree :: Singletree (n.) The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.

Ridgeband :: Ridgeband (n.) The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger..

Drawgear :: Drawgear (n.) A harness for draught horses.

Ungear :: Ungear (v. t.) To strip of gear; to unharness; to throw out of gear.

Gearing :: Gearing (n.) Harness.

Tackle :: Tackle (n.) To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as, to tackle a horse into a coach or wagon..

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..

Hame :: Hame (n.) One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them..

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..

Brace :: Brace (n.) Harness; warlike preparation.

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