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hackamore

[hak-uh-mawr, -mohr] / ˈhæk əˌmɔr, -ˌmoʊr /


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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

I'm going to ride him to-day with a hackamore; and you watch him perform, old man!

From The Gringos by Anton Otto Fischer

Collie, using both hands, swung the hackamore across the outlaw's neck and tugged.

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

Mrs. Steele gave the half-awakened Whitey a "foot up" upon the pony, untied the hackamore, and he was gone.

From Injun and Whitey to the Rescue by William S. Hart

He'll find Bowles ridin' Dunbar with a hackamore and feedin' him sugar from his hand.

From Bat Wing Bowles by Dane Coolidge




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