Harness

1. n. 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.
2. n. Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
3. n. The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.