Antonyms for harnessing
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : hahr-nis |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑr nɪs |
Definition of harnessing
Origin :- "to put a harness on a draught animal," c.1300, from Old French harneschier, from harnois (see harness (n.)); figurative sense is from 1690s. Related: Harnessed; harnessing.
- verb rein in; control
- He chuckled all through the harnessing of Daniel, the venerable white horse.
- Extract from : « Cap'n Eri » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- But I was not aware that you had engaged in roping or harnessing the animal.
- Extract from : « Glyn Severn's Schooldays » by George Manville Fenn
- The harnessing of an Italian diligence is a mystery to all but an Italian postilion.
- Extract from : « Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber » by James Aitken Wylie
- Beechnut did not answer to this proposal, but went on harnessing the horse.
- Extract from : « Stuyvesant » by Jacob Abbott
- Carriers' men were harnessing the freshly groomed bays to the pole.
- Extract from : « Complete Short Works » by Georg Ebers
- When it came to harnessing, the first trouble of the day began.
- Extract from : « The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 » by Roald Amundsen
- The cure had not waited for this assent to go and give an order for harnessing the horses.
- Extract from : « The Honor of the Name » by Emile Gaboriau
- He enjoyed helping with the horse, harnessing and unharnessing it.
- Extract from : « In Pawn » by Ellis Parker Butler
- Miss Miller assisted in harnessing one side while Zan did the other.
- Extract from : « The Woodcraft Girls at Camp » by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
- When we come to think of it, the harnessing of the sun is not so very strange.
- Extract from : « Boys' Second Book of Inventions » by Ray Stannard Baker
Synonyms for harnessing
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