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

“You haven’t anything but a hackamore on him,” said Merry.

From Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star by Standish, Burt L.

Another thicker and softer rope was knotted so that it could not slip about the now sweating neck, and fashioned into a hackamore or halter about the animal's nose.

From When A Man's A Man by Wright, Harold Bell

Then the younger man, talking to her meanwhile, slipped off the bridle and adjusted a hackamore in its place.

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

The boy, still grasping the hackamore in his left hand, with his right threw the saddle blanket over the animal's back.

From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward