Harness
['hɑːnɪs] or ['hɑrnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart.
(noun.) a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute).
(verb.) exploit the power of; 'harness natural forces and resources'.
(verb.) put a harness; 'harness the horse'.
(verb.) control and direct with or as if by reins; 'rein a horse'.
Editor: Nicolas--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
(n.) The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.
(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.
(v. t.) To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array.
(v. t.) Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense.
(v. t.) To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tackling.
v. a. Tackle, put in harness.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ACCOUTREMENTS]
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Definition
n. the equipments of a horse: formerly the armour of a man or horse: equipment for any kind of labour.—v.t. to equip with armour: to put the harness on a horse.—n. Har′ness-cask a tub a cask with rimmed cover on a ship's deck holding the salt meat for daily use.—Die in harness to die at one's work.
Editor: Will
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of possessing bright new harness, you will soon prepare for a pleasant journey.
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Examples
- Placing one end of my harness strap in his hands I lowered him quickly to the ground below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Stripping his harness from him I securely bound his hands behind his back, and after similarly fastening his feet tied him to a heavy gun carriage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Harness-maker's estimate, so much. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Bright the carriage looked, sleek the horses looked, gleaming the harness looked, luscious and lasting the liveries looked. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- For the object of democracy is not to imitate the rhythm of the stars but to harness political power to the nation's need. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The principal business consisted in securing mules, and getting them broken to harness. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- With it and the harness which you may select there will be no more handsomely accoutred warrior in all Zodanga. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- And so I caused Hor Vastus to be harnessed in the metal of a Zodangan soldier and chained in Parthak's cell beside him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Before that time it seemed impossible that explosive gases would ever be harnessed as steam had been and made to do continual successful work in a cylinder and behind a piston. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I saw the pony harnessed myself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- They so harnessed him and drove him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Cutting disks are harnessed to steam motors and are adapted to break up at one operation a wide strip of ground. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The dream has been realised, and the turbine is the apparatus through which the power of the harnessed giant is transmitted. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The sun was now fairly harnessed in the service of man in the new great art of Photography. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The harnesses of the farmer's and labouring man's horses a century ago, when they were fortunate enough to own horses, were of the crudest description. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Many harnesses were so encrusted with gold, platinum, silver and precious stones as to entirely hide the leather beneath. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Now the strength and cheapness of harnesses enable the poor man to equip his horse with a working suit impossible to have been produced a hundred years ago. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I added this saving clause, in the moment of rejecting four richly caparisoned coursers which I had had wild thoughts of harnessing. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The horses are harnessing. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It had vast potentialities for good and evil--all it wanted was harnessing and directing. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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