Definition of "harness" []

• The gear or tackle, other than a yoke, with which a draft animal pulls a vehicle or implement. (noun)
• Something resembling such gear or tackle, as the arrangement of straps used to hold a parachute to the body. (noun)
• A device that raises and lowers the warp threads on a loom. (noun)
• Archaic Armor for a man or horse. (noun)
• To put a harness on (a draft animal). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Always wearing the harness is my best form of safety."
• "We did use a leash for Papoosie Girl which we called her harness, which I am sure makes it a lot better."
• "They went into what they called the harness-room, and James began carefully to clean his gun."