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

Tying the hackamore about her waist, she took a single deep breath of reassurance and stepped out into the river.

From The Mucker by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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)

As Blue regained his feet Harris stepped into the saddle and rose with him, the hackamore rope trailing loose under the horse's feet.

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

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)