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harness Harness 1. A type of tack placed upon a horse or other animal in order to hitch it to a cart, plow, wagon or other horse-drawn vehicle. [1]: 101 2. To harness a horse is to put the harness on the horse. harness racing, trotting races The sport of racing horses in harness, pulling a very light single-person cart called a sulky. The ...
Harnesses from the front View of harness from above-rear. A horse harness is a device that connects a horse to a horse-drawn vehicle or another type of load to pull. There are two main designs of horse harness: (1) the breast collar or breaststrap, and (2) the full collar or collar-and-hames.
A breaststrap harness has a wide leather strap going horizontally across the horses' breast, attached to the traces and then to the load. This is used only for lighter loads. A collar and hames harness has a collar around the horses' neck with wood or metal hames in the collar. The traces attach from the hames to the load.
A cable laced wiring harness installed in a component of a Tesla coil Harness of car audio cables.. A cable harness, also known as a wire harness, wiring harness, cable assembly, wiring assembly or wiring loom, is an assembly of electrical cables or wires which transmit signals or electrical power. [1]
The travois was dragged by hand, sometimes fitted with a shoulder harness for more efficient dragging, or dragged by dogs or horses (after the 16th-century introduction of horses by the Spanish). A travois could either be loaded by piling goods atop the bare frame and tying them in place, or by first stretching cloth or leather over the frame ...
Late medieval gothic plate armour with list of elements. The slot in the helmet is called an occularium. This list identifies various pieces of body armour worn from the medieval to early modern period in the Western world, mostly plate but some mail armour, arranged by the part of body that is protected and roughly by date.
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; Pet harness; Five-point harness; Horse harness; Parrot harness; Safety harness; Windsurfing harness; The backpack straps of a breathing apparatus; Harness may also refer to ...
Harness bull American term for a uniformed officer. [32] A reference to the Sam Browne belt that was formerly part of some police uniforms, also Harness cop, Harness man. [33] Havāladāra Term meaning Constable in Marathi. Heat or The Heat [citation needed] For police and law enforcement in general (due to some police vehicles featuring red ...