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

Deftly seizing one by the nose, the girl forced a rope "hackamore" she had brought with her into its mouth, and cast off its hobbles.

From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Payson, Lieut. Howard

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

From the consulate he went to a local stock-yard and purchased a miserable, flea-bitten, dejected saddle mule, together with a dilapidated old stock saddle with a crupper, and a well-worn horse-hair hackamore.

From The Pride of Palomar by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

Then the younger man, talking to her meanwhile, slipped off the bridle and adjusted a hackamore in its place.

From Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Fischer, Anton Otto