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
One fore foot was strapped up, a hackamore or bitless bridle was adjusted in place, and he was allowed to arise.
From A Texas Matchmaker by Adams, Andy
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
Up came the hand and the rawhide hackamore slipped slowly into place.
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)
