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shaganappi harness Hist.

• gear made of shaganappi (def. 2), as for hitching oxen or ponies to carts.

  See also: shaganappi ((n.)) (def. 2)  

  • 1871  (1883)  "Shanganappi harness is tough stuff and a broken sled is easily set to rights. . . ."
  • 1885  Huge wheels, out of all proportion to the carrying capacity, with felloes roughly cut from native wood . shaganappi fastening everywhere, shaganappi "hitchings" ; not a grain of iron in its whole anatomy--such was the far-famed Red River Cart in its palmy days.