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

A band of colts were in the circular corral to be gentled to rope, saddle and hackamore.

From The Ramblin' Kid by Bowman, Earl Wayland

We'd ketch 'im up, hackamore 'im up, saddle 'im up and get on 'im and let 'im go.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration

One puts a weanling on a rope halter, accustoms him to the feel of the hackamore, of being with men.

From Rebel Spurs by Norton, Andre

Tied to a bush, by a hackamore, was an iron-gray colt, the fastest on the ranch.

From Injun and Whitey to the Rescue by Hart, William S.