hackamore

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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

And every summer at home his father added extension courses in the saddle and bridle, spur, hackamore and lariat to his education.

From Laramie Holds the Range by Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)

He had fashioned a hackamore for each and they stood tied to the corral bars.

From The Settling of the Sage by Evarts, Hal G. (Hal George)

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)

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 Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)