Noun: harness
| Singular | harness |
| Plural | harnesses |
Sample Sentences
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The cars then enter the main lines for further assembly - including the installation of internal electrical harnesses, underfloor equipment, internal panelling, roof equipment, carpets, seats and tables. [2024 December 27, Pip Dunn, “Network News: Hitachi pushes on with '810' assembly and testing”, in RAIL, number 1025, page 20:]
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Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
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At least we'll die with harness on our back. [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:]
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"I'll give thee for my ransom the very best harnéss
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That either young or old in the world doth possess. [1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 210:]
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Under the sea-girt cliffs the shining ship was readied, laden with coats of mail, swords, and gleaming war harness. [1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 23:]
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test harness
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harness engineering
Nouns inflected like harness
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English harneys, harnes, harneis, harnais, herneis, from Anglo-Norman harneis and Old French hernois (“equipment used in battle”), believed to be from Old Norse *hernest, from herr (“army”) + nest (“provisions”) (from Proto-Germanic *nesaną (“to heal, recover”)). More at harry. See: Middle English Nouns '
harneys'.
Verbs referencing "harness"
Finnish Nouns
haarniska, German Nouns
Harnisch.