backband
(ˈbækbænd)
[f. back n. 1 + band.]
1. A broad leather strap, or iron chain, passing over the cart-saddle or pad on the back of a horse, and serving to keep up the shafts of a vehicle.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §5 A cart sadel, bakbandes, and belybandes. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Cart, The Thill hooks and back-band which hold the sides of the Cart up to the horse. 1848 Thompson in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IX. ii. 403 The shafts should be fixed at such a height by means of the back-band, that, etc. |
2. The outside moulding on a door or window casing.
| 1940 in Chambers's Techn. Dict. 1944 C. F. Dingman Estimating Building Costs (ed. 3) ix. 202 Window trim should have dimensions and descriptions of inside casings..backbands, scotia, etc. |