[f. BACK sb. 1 + BAND.] 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.].
