Crossword clues for harness
harness
- Difficulty disposing of daughter's stuff for horse
- Horse holder
- Tack room gear
- Shoulder belt
- Parachute attachment
- Horse's gear
- Equestrian equipment
- Draft-horse gear
- Straps and buckles
- Set of straps on an ox
- Racehorse gear
- Part of a draft horse's gear
- It can hold your horses
- Get ready to use
- Exploit (something's) potential energy
- Draft animal attachment
- Double ___ (close partnership)
- Control, as energy
- Auto-seat safety gear
- Arabian belt?
- Make ready for use
- Bring under control
- It will hold your horses
- Tack item
- Take control of
- Control and make use of
- A support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute)
- 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
- Utilize
- Gear for Dobbin
- Sulky feature
- Kind of racing
- Contain, as atomic power
- Tackle
- Kind of race
- Horse's burden
- Criminal hears about new opening for someone to control and exploit
- Control and use (resources)
- Parachute straps
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harness \Har"ness\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harnessed (-n[e^]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Harnessing.] [OE. harneisen; cf. F. harnacher, OF. harneschier.]
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To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array.
Harnessed in rugged steel.
--Rowe.A gay dagger, Harnessed well and sharp as point of spear.
--Chaucer. Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense.
--Dr. H. More.-
To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively.
Harnessed to some regular profession.
--J. C. Shairp.Harnessed antelope. (Zo["o]l.) See Guib.
Harnessed moth (Zo["o]l.), an American bombycid moth ( Arctia phalerata of Harris), having, on the fore wings, stripes and bands of buff on a black ground.
Harness \Har"ness\ (-n[e^]s), n. [OE. harneis, harnes, OF. harneis, F. harnais, harnois; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. harnez old iron, armor, W. haiarn iron, Armor. houarn, Ir. iarann, Gael. iarunn. Cf. Iron.]
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Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
At least we'll die with harness on our back.
--Shak. The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.
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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.
To die in harness, to die with armor on; hence, colloquially, to die while actively engaged in work or duty.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "personal fighting equipment, body armor," also "armor or trappings of a war-horse," from Old French harnois "arms, equipment; harness; male genitalia; tackle; household equipment," of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old Norse *hernest "provisions for an army," from herr "army" (see harry) + nest "provisions" (see nostalgia). Non-military sense of "fittings for a beast of burden" is from early 14c. German Harnisch "harness, armor" is the French word, borrowed into Middle High German. The Celtic words also are believed to be from French, as are Spanish arnes, Portuguese arnez, Italian arnese. Prive harness (late 14c.) was a Middle English term for "sex organs."
"to put a harness on a draught animal," c.1300, from Old French harneschier, from harnois (see harness (n.)); figurative sense is from 1690s. Related: Harnessed; harnessing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps. 2 (context countable English) A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function. 3 (context dated English) The complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; armour in general. 4 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. vb. (context transitive English) To place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain.
WordNet
n. a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute)
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
Wikipedia
A harness is a looped restraint or support. Specifically, it may refer to one of the following harness types:
- Bondage harness
- Child harness
- Climbing harness
- Dog harness
- Five-point harness
- Horse harness
- Parrot harness
- Safety harness
- Windsurfing harness
- The backpack straps of a breathing apparatus
Harness may also refer to:
- Cable harness
- Harness (comics), a character in the Marvel Comics universe
- Test harness, in software testing
- Harness racing, horse racing
- Loom harness, a component of a loom
- Harness, a type of clinch in grappling
Harness (Erika Benson) is a fictional mutant character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Her first appearance was in New Mutants Annual #7. As of October 2015, all of her appearances were in the "Kings of Pain" storyline that ran through four of Marvel Comics Annual comics published in 1991.
Usage examples of "harness".
Toed off my Keds, pulled off my socks, unbuckled my sword harness and dropped my shorts on the ground, pulled off my T-shirt with the Device of Aceta blazoned in magic marker, and stood there in my tight, white, Johnny Weismuller briefs.
Gorwing roared, pounding on the front door of the Anything Shoppe with force enough to set adance the two sets of pony harness and the cabbage grater that hung against it.
The Alamo, harnessed behind the Sun King by four lines, would be dragged along behind.
Dismukes might never have been harnessed to the beam of an arrastra and driven like a mule, and his awful tread-mill toil in the terrible heat under the lacerating lash was as if it had never been.
He was all axman now, sure and powerful in his heavy crimson cloak, the weight of his broadax straining the leather harness at his breast.
A ripple passed through those remaining as they began sticking their spears through the harness holding their bowcases, hanging their bucklers on their belts, unlimbering their bows.
Luke and Mara thought their harness belts would cut right through them.
A skeletal hand clicked bony fingers against the hilt of the knife still borne in a harness on its chest.
In the next fifteen minutes we have to get our suits on, over to the ore buckets, and into these harnesses.
I shake my traveling risers loose from my full-body harness, slide my hands over the crowded gear sling that we call a rack, find the two-bearing pulley by feel, clip it on to the riser ring with a carabiner, run a Munter hitch into a second carabiner as a friction-brake backup to the pulley brake, find my best offset-D carabiner and use it to clip the pulley flanges together around the cable, and then run my safety line through the first two carabiners while tying a short prusik sling onto the rope, finally clipping that on to my chest harness below the risers.
To show him that it was all right, I reach up to my harness line to show him that the carabiner is locked tight to the safety line.
My right hand is useless -- some tendon slashed in these final seconds -- so I raise my left hand, pull the safety line from my harness -- I can only hope it is still intact -- and clip the carabiner onto the piton bolt with a metallic slap, like handcuffs slamming home.
The double locking snap hook at the end of the galvanized steel cable he connected to a carabiner, which hooked on the full body harness sewn into the tactical vest.
When they had finished eating, the carilloneur refastened his harness to his line, and, with a wave and a brief word, dropped over the side of the ledge and out of sight.
The tackroom and workshops of the stables housing the horses of the Carinthian Jaegers has been destroyed by fire and he has a big order for new harness in time for a state parade in October.