Definition of harness

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Harness (n.) The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle..

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Housing :: Housing (n.) An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness..
Harness :: Harness (n.) The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling..
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..
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..
Drawgear :: Drawgear (n.) A harness for draught horses.
Inspan :: Inspan (v. t. & i.) To yoke or harness, as oxen to a vehicle..
But :: But (v. t.) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks..
Harnessing :: Harnessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Harnes.
Simblot :: Simblot (n.) The harness of a drawloom.
Gear :: Gear (n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
Bright-harnessed :: Bright-harnessed (a.) Having glittering armor.
Bellyband :: Bellyband (n.) A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.
Breeching :: Breeching (n.) That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle..
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..
Untackle :: Untackle (v. t.) To unbitch; to unharness.
Heddling :: Heddling (vb. n.) The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself.
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue..
Saddlery :: Saddlery (n.) The materials for making saddles and harnesses; the articles usually offered for sale in a saddler's shop.
Harnessed :: Harnessed (imp. & p. p.) of Harnes.
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