reharnessv.
/ˌriːˈhɑːnᵻs/, U.S. /riˈhɑrnəs/ transitive. To harness again, esp. to put (a draught animal) back in harness.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > harness or yoke
yokeOE
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cart-saddle1377
join1377
couple1393
enharness1490
benda1522
bind1535
span1550
team1552
spang1580
inyoke1595
trace1605
enclose?1615
gear1638
to get in1687
reharness1775
reyoke1813
to hook up1825
inspan1834
hitch1844
pole1846
stock1909
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (transitive)] > tack or harness
harness13..
putc1550
to put in1709
tackle1714
to put to1732
reharness1775
crupper1787
crup1880
tack1946
1775 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 10 Nov. (1778) He was three months before he could be re-harnessed.
1821 Times 5 Sept. 2/5 His Lordship..ordering the horses to be sent for back and immediately reharnessed to the vehicle.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. i. 486 They reharnessed the dogs, and turned to the west.
1875 Appletons' Jrnl. Oct. 516 The passage of the Laurel, with the attendant trouble of putting the carriages together again, and reharnessing the horses, occupies two hours.
1925 Geogr. Jrnl. 66 31 We emerged from this chaos on to comparatively smooth ice. The dogs were reharnessed, and we set off at a rattling pace.
1973 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 34 424 This is a more than adequate description of Hegel's civil society, with rationality creating and being created out of egoism, operating at first on a lower level but to be re-harnessed in full upon the emergence of the state.
1989 A. H. Saxon P. T. Barnum viii. 161 The coachman was hastily summoned and ordered to reharness the horses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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