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

The cowboy who had him in tow took an extra dally around the saddle horn as the Texan, hackamore in hand, felt his way inch by inch along the taut lead-rope.

From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

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

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

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