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

He wore no spurs; and as for Surry, he had no bridle and bit, but a hackamore instead.

From The Gringos by Fischer, Anton Otto

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

From Bat Wing Bowles by Coolidge, Dane

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

The pony, with hackamore dangling, raced across the plain toward the hills.

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