Harness
Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.
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 dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array.
Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense.
To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively.
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Harness Quotations
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Robert Frost
I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.
Ryan Gosling
Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
Cher
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin
I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.
Lyman Abbott
Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare.
Rupert Grint
Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.
Bill Frist
Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses.
Tom Allen
I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
Victoria Pratt
Harness Translations
harness in Dutch is span
harness in French is atteler
harness in German is Geschirr, Kabelbaum
harness in Italian is porcellana
harness in Latin is capistrum
harness in Portuguese is chicote de fios
harness in Spanish is vajilla, arneses
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