hackamore

Example Sentences

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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

A band of colts were in the circular corral to be gentled to rope, saddle and hackamore.

From The Ramblin' Kid by Bowman, Earl Wayland

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

We'd ketch 'im up, hackamore 'im up, saddle 'im up and get on 'im and let 'im go.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration

I didn't have to say no more, for I had a hackamore on Mike's attention right there, and he quit climbin' the "G" string and put up his box.

From Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories by Beach, Rex Ellingwood