Crossword-Solution: BACKBAND
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Backband | n. | The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage. |
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| back support | 2 answers |
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Sentences with BACKBAND (5)
The traces should be of such a length that [Sidenote: The traces.] the backband will lie on about the middle of the pad when the horse is in draught; the horse will then not be drawing the cart by the backband.
The first starts from the tug on one end of the backband, and goes right round the horse’s quarters to the tug on the other.
Nature, in her exuberant goodness, has supplied an abundance of primitive rope, which is just as convenient and efficacious as the best cordage, whether a man wants to hang himself or a dog--whether he wants a cap for his fence, a backband for his plough-horse, a pair of leading lines, or a girth for his saddle.
After a trace or backband or other lined strap is stitched, the uneven edges require to be rounded and smoothed; this is done by clamping the strap between the knees, holding the clamp a little straighter than when stitching, and using the spokeshave.
Others necessary are:—Leader backband chains, cheek chains for the end of leading rein, bridgeband chains, and chains for the bellyband, instead of billets, to go round the shafts.