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

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

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)

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

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)