What is the plural of Harness?

Answer 1

harnesses

When referring to horse gear the plural should be harness.

He owned an extensive collection of harness.

There are several sorts of harness, depending on the job the horse is doing.

The horse wore two sets of pulling harness, one with a collar and hames for the dray and the other with a breastplate for the buggy.

The harness for my uncle's team of nine heavy draughts was kept suspended from the beams of the shed, from where it could be lowered into place.

You could, I suppose, say "there are different harnesses for different things", but it is ugly, clumsy and, I suspect wrong. It is better to say "there is different harness for each different task".

Climbing harness and harness for babies may be subject to different rules, but I'd hazard a guess that they're not. There is one sense in which you could use harnesses: "He had an extensive collection of harnesses: climbers' harness, babies harness and horse harness; harnesses used to sling loads for lifting in to ships' holds and even harness of the sort used by bondage fetishists." However, he'd be a pretty rare individual and I'm not sure I'd like to meet him.

Too often these days we take the easy way out when writing and so we end up with things like, "he summitted the mountain" and "she medalled at the Olympics" and, just as bad "the book was gifted to me".

Answer 2

The suffix of harness is -ness. This suffix means a state of.

Answer 3

Harnesses is plural for harness

Answer 4

Harnesses.