hackamore

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So Williams plans to stop calling a rope a rawhide riata and not use words like hackamore, tapaderas and cinch ring.

From Time Magazine Archive

Presently the riders returned, and Phil, when he had removed saddle, blanket and hackamore from his pupil, seated himself on the edge of the watering trough beside the Dean.

From When A Man's A Man by Wright, Harold Bell

Tying the hackamore about her waist, she took a single deep breath of reassurance and stepped out into the river.

From The Mucker by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

The big blue leaned back, crouching on his haunches as the man put on the hackamore.

From The Settling of the Sage by Evarts, Hal G. (Hal George)

Another thicker and softer rope was knotted so that it could not slip about the now sweating neck, and fashioned into a hackamore or halter about the animal's nose.

From When A Man's A Man by Wright, Harold Bell