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n. The gear or tackle, other than a yoke, with which a draft animal pulls a vehicle or implement.

n. Something resembling such gear or tackle, as the arrangement of straps used to hold a parachute to the body.

n. A device that raises and lowers the warp threads on a loom.

n. Archaic Armor for a man or horse.

v. To put a harness on (a draft animal).

v. To fasten by the use of a harness.

v. To bring under control and direct the force of: If you can harness your energy, you will accomplish a great deal.

idiom. in harness On duty or at work.

n. A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps.

n. A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function.

v. to place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain

v. to capture, control or put to use

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. To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array.

v. Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense.

v. To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively.

n. The defensive armor and weapons of a soldier, especially of a knight; in general, and especially in modern poetical use, a suit of armor.

n. Clothing; dress; garments.

n. The working-gear or tackle of a horse, mule, ass, goat, dog, or other animal (except the ox) used for draft; the straps, collar, bridle, lines, traces, etc., put upon a draft-animal to enable it to work and to guide its actions. See cut in next column.

n. Hence Figuratively, working-tackle of any kind; an equipment for any kind of labor; also, that which fits or makes ready for labor: as, his duties keep him constantly in the harness.

n. The apparatus in a loom by which the sets of warp-threads are shifted alternately to form the shed. It consists of the heddles and their means of support and motion. Also called mounting.

n. The mechanism by which a large bell is suspended and tolled.

n. Temper; humor: alluding to the behavior of a horse in harness.

To dress in armor; equip with armor for war, as a man or horse.

To fit out; equip; dress.

To equip or furnish for defense.

To put harness or working-tackle on, as a horse.

To fit up or put together with metal mountings.

To fasten to a boat by the toggle-iron and tow-line, as a whale.

n. Nautical, an obsolete term for the furniture of a ship.

v. exploit the power of

v. put a harness

n. 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

v. control and direct with or as if by reins

n. a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute)

v. keep in check

"Always wearing the harness is my best form of safety."

unharness   

harnessed    harnesses    harnessing   

tap    exploit    stable gear    saddlery    tack    control    command    support    limit    throttle   

coupé harness    to die in harness    harness of arms    double equal plain tie-harness    cape harness    pressure harness    double-scale harness    centered tieharness   

harnessed    harnessing    test harness   

gear    tackling    array    hitch    saddle    inyoke    yoke    span    inspan    trap   

belt    strap    armor    saddle    rope    helmet    bridle    gear    buckle    collar