HARNESS (from O. Fr. harneis or harnois; the ultimate origin is obscure; the Celtic origin which connects it with the Welsh haiarn, iron, has phonetic and other difficulties; the French is the origin of the Span. arnes, and Ger. Harnisch)

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HARNESS (from O. Fr. harneis or harnois; the ultimate origin is obscure; the Celtic origin which connects it with the Welsh haiarn, iron, has phonetic and other difficulties; the French is the origin of the Span. arnes, and Ger. Harnisch) , probably, in
origin, gear, tackle, equipment in general, but early applied particularly to the

body

BODY

armour

ARMOUR, PHILIP DANFORTH (1832-1901)

of a soldier, including the trappings of the

horse

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

; now the general

term

TERM

for the gear of an animal used for draft purposes, traces, collar, bridle, girth, breeching, &c. It is usually not applied to the saddle or bridle of a riding animal. The word, in its

original

ORIGINAL

meaning of tackle or working apparatus, is still found in weaving, for the mechanism which shifts the warp-threads to form the " shed," and in bell-

hanging

HANGING

, for the apparatus by which a large bell is hung. The New

English

ENGLISH

Dictionary quotes an early use of the word for the lines, rod and hooks of an angler (Fysshing with an

Angle

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form,
angus
- ANGUS, EARLS OF
, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

, c. 1450).

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