different between harness vs haulm

English

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 Old Norse heer (“army”) + nest (“provisions”). More at harry.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??(?).n?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n?s

Noun

harness (countable and uncountable, plural harnesses)

1. (countable) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps.
2. (countable) A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function.
3. (dated, uncountable) The complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; armour in general.
   • 1606 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act V, scene V

     Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!

     At least we'll die with harness on our back.

4. The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
5. Equipment for any kind of labour.

Alternative forms

• harnass (rare, archaic)

Derived terms

• harnessed antelope
• harnessed moth
• test harness

Translations

Verb

harness (third-person singular simple present harnesses, present participle harnessing, simple past and past participle harnessed)

1. (transitive) To place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain.
2. (transitive) To capture, control or put to use.
3. (transitive) To equip with armour.

Translations

See also

• harness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Harness in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Shaners

English

Alternative forms

• halm

Etymology

From Middle English halm, from Old English healm, from Proto-Germanic *halmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *?olh?mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek ??????? (kálamos) and Latin culmus. Doublet of calame and culm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?m/, /h??m/

Noun

haulm (countable and uncountable, plural haulms)

1. (uncountable) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching.
2. (countable) An individual plant stem.
3. (countable) Part of a harness; a hame.

Synonyms

• (stems of plants, used as animal litter or for thatching): straw, thatch

Translations

Anagrams

• Lahmu, La?mu