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
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 Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
At the corral the animals wearily tossed their heads, low hung with exhaustion, seeking to shift the sticky clutch of head-stall or hackamore, while their riders dismounted and quickly removed saddle and riding gear.
From The Ramblin' Kid by Earl Wayland Bowman
Tying the hackamore about her waist, she took a single deep breath of reassurance and stepped out into the river.
From The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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
