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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..

Simblot :: Simblot (n.) The harness of a drawloom.

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

Harnessed :: Harnessed (imp. & p. p.) of Harnes.

Caparison :: Caparison (v. t.) To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse..

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..

Bright-harnessed :: Bright-harnessed (a.) Having glittering armor.

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.

Plate :: Plate (v. t.) To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness..

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..

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..

Haulm :: Haulm (n.) A part of a harness; a hame.

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

Holdback :: Holdback (n.) The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used..

Inclose :: Inclose (v. t.) To put into harness; to harness.

Terret :: Terret (n.) One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass..

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle..

Harness :: Harness (n.) Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor..

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