backbandn.
/ˈbakband/ 1. A broad leather strap, or iron chain, passing over the cart-saddle or pad on the back of a horse, and serving to keep up the shafts of a vehicle.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > backband
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?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. iiii A cart sadell, bacbandes, belly bandes, and a cart ladder.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Cart The Thill hooks and back-band which hold the sides of the Cart up to the horse.
1848 Thompson in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 403 The shafts should be fixed at such a height by means of the back-band, that, etc.
2. The outside moulding on a door or window casing.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > framing > part of framing
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backband1940
1940 in Chambers's Techn. Dict.
1944 C. F. Dingman Estimating Building Costs (ed. 3) ix. 202 Window trim should have dimensions and descriptions of inside casings..backbands, scotia, etc.
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