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harness
harness is a 7-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
- 2noun
The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.
- 3noun
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.
- 4transitive verb
To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array.
- 5transitive verb
Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense.
- 6transitive verb
To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively.
- 7noun
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
- 8noun
a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute)
- 9verb
keep in check
"rule one's temper"
- 10verb
exploit the power of
"harness natural forces and resources"
- 11verb
put a harness
"harness the horse"
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- 12verb
control and direct with or as if by reins
"rein a horse"
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