Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the metal rings on a harness through which the reins pass.
- noun A ring on an animal's collar, used for attaching a leash.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the round loops or rings on a harness-pad through which the driving-reins pass. See cuts under
harness and pad-tree.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of the
rings on the top of thesaddle of aharness , through which thereins pass.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Aut suadendo blanditur, aut minando terret, sometimes by fair means, sometimes again by foul, as he perceives men severally inclined.
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Hominem te agnoscere nequeo, cum tanquam asinus recalcitres, lascivias ut taurus, hinnias ut equus post mulieres, ut ursus ventri indulgeas, quum rapias ut lupus, &c. at inquis formam hominis habeo, Id magis terret, quum feram humana specie videre me putem.
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And by him that spake only as a philosopher, and natural man, it was well said, Pompa mortis magis terret, quam mors ipsa.
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Combined sleigh bell and terret ring, H.M. Richmond 11,027
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Deinde signo dato undique simul clamor ingens oritur; neque ea res Numidas terret, infensi intentique sine tumultu manent; proelium incipitur.
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And by him that spake only as a philosopher and natural man, it was well said, Pompa mortis magis terret, quam mors ipsa [It is the accompaniments of death that are frightful rather than death itself].
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Potentem censes qui satellite latus ambit, qui quos terret ipse plus metuit, qui ut potens esse uideatur, in seruientium manu situm est?
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There's a heading you've got for one of your chapters, a quotation from some Latin author, which I can't place to my satisfaction; I mean that one beginning "_Non terret principes_."'
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And by him that spake only as a philosopher and natural man, it was well said, _Pompa mortis magis terret quam mors ipsa.
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Only one side of the shafts was supported by the harness, and we did not stop to fasten the hold-back straps, nor to put the lines through the terret, nor tie the hitching strap.
oroboros commented on the word terret
A part of a harness.
According to Chris Cole in Wordplay, the longest (among five others) "uncommon word" palindrome beginning with letter 't'.
June 2, 2008