| 单词 | quoiler-harness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquoiler-harness Chiefly in plural. A leather strap passing around the hindquarters of a carthorse, which allows the cart to be driven backwards or downhill; the breeching. Frequently attributive, as quoiler-harness, quoiler-horse. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle haltera1000 bridleOE brake1430 gorel1480 watering bridle1502 mollet-bridle1503 headgear1538 slipe1586 chase-halter1607 branks1657 bit-bridle1676 curb-bridle1677 chain-bridle1690 blind-halter1711 ox-riem1817 blind-bridle1833 bell-bridle1836 training halter1842 hackamore1850 Pelham bridle1875 quoiler1876 knee-halter1892 war bridle1962 side pull1965 1697 London Gaz. No. 3317/4 A black Horse..the Hair rubbed off behind with the Quilers. 1851 Times 6 May 1/5 To be sold by auction..numerous sets of quoiler, chain, trace, and leading harnesses. 1876 Surrey Gloss. Quoilers, the breeching of a cart-harness. Quoiler-harness or thill-harness is the trace-harness. 1901 Kentish Express 13 July 12/4 Good Quoiler Horse. 1920 W. Atkinson Autobiogr. xxi. 283 His idea was that the quiler should be put on the front end of the animal and the bridle on the other. 1957 H. Hall Parish's Dict. Sussex Dial. (new ed.) 102/1 Quilers, or Quoilers, part of the harness of a cart horse; the breeching. Its function is to hold back the cart or wagon when going downhill and for backing. < as lemmas |
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