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

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 Fischer, Anton Otto

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 Bowman, Earl Wayland

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

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