Today's word is Harness. It would be easy to show this, with an image and no words and you would still
know what the word was! But how to make it interesting is another thing all together. I was thinking about this, as we were sitting on a bench, opposite the open Golf Course, on Wimbledon Common. No image came into my view, so after our rest on the bench, we started off toward the Common and home! Then round the common came my image! or rather 2 images for the one word! I just couldn't seperate these two. They are both just under 2 years old, not sure which was oldest. The reason they are both looking in the same direction, is because their "mum" had gone back to the car to pick up her camera! They never took their eyes off her!
I know this one image day BUT....hey... l make the rules!
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harness |ˈhärnis|nouna set of straps and fittings by which a horse or other draft animal isfastened to a cart, plow, etc., and is controlled by its driver.
• an arrangement of straps for fasteningsomething to a person's body, such as aparachute, or for restraining a young child.verb [ trans. ]1 put a harness on (a horse or other draft animal).• ( harness something to) attach a draftanimal to (something) by a harness : the horse was harnessed to two long shafts.2 control and make use of (natural resources), esp. to produce energy :attempts to harness solar energy | figurative harnessing the creativity of graduates.PHRASESin harness (of a horse or other animal) used for driving or draft work. •in the routine of daily work : a man who died in harness far beyond the normal age of retirement. • working closely with someone to achieve something :local and central government should work in harness.DERIVATIVESharnesser |ˈhɑrnəsər| nounORIGIN Middle English : from Old French harneis ‘military equipment,’ from Old Norse, from herr ‘army’ + nest ‘provisions.’
Sunday, February 21, 2010
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